My knowledge of politics is highly insufficient. And I want to make it sufficient, I really do, but the problem is I've never really talked to the right kind of person who can answer my questions the way I expect them to be answered.
Whenever I sit with someone to discuss politics, I get impatient. It's because their description and list of what's wrong with Pakistan is SO LONG and I keep waiting for the time when they discuss the solutions but that part hardly ever comes. Even if it does, (despite my inexperienced and unprofessional opinions) I find their solutions so thoroughly incompetent that I want to scream at them.
From what I have experienced up till now, here is what happens:
We're discussing illiteracy in Pakistan. People don't want to get education. The government isn't spending enough funds on building schools. There is too much corruption. It's all our leaders fault.
Yes, I get it. You're not wrong. We have a problem, obviously it's because of a reason and your reasons are completely sensible. But for heavens sake, DO NOT conclude at it's all our leaders fault.
You really want to find solutions? Walk a mile in their shoes. You try setting up a school when powerful external forces don't want you to. I'm not defending the leaders. I'm just saying that if corruption is one of the reasons why illiteracy is spreading, then don't just tell me that we need to set up new schools to eradicate illiteracy, tell me how you can do it with corruption hindering your aims.
It's just what I expect from the "knowledgeable" people of my circles.
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