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1 week ago |
tribune.com.pk | Farrukh Khan Pitafi
"The unceasing round of valour, greatness, discord, degeneracy, and decay." This is how Edward Gibbon summarises the lifecycles of Asiatic dynasties in his book, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It is interesting to note that he was sharing these thoughts on Asian decline in a book about the Roman, or Western, decline — and we are now repurposing it to evaluate the rumours surrounding American decline. This sombre message strikes one much like a fortune cookie.
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2 weeks ago |
tribune.com.pk | Farrukh Khan Pitafi
"If you ask me what Pakistan's real tragedy is, I'd say it's this: those whom the state loves don't love it back. Its greatest beneficiaries — the elite — have never truly cared about the country. Keep showering us with perks and privileges, they demand, or we'll walk. And the state keeps obliging, thanks to elite capture.
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3 weeks ago |
tribune.com.pk | Farrukh Khan Pitafi
Generation Alpha followed Generation Z, and they are naming the generation now being born Generation Beta. This sounds like textbook late-capitalism dark humour. In online subcultures, "beta male" means men who lack masculinity. Why would anybody choose such a loaded word for an entire generation if it were not dark humour? Not fair. Youth and late capitalism have been debated for a long time, especially since the market crash of 2008. That fateful crisis turned countless lives upside down.
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1 month ago |
tribune.com.pk | Farrukh Khan Pitafi
Warning: This piece delves into big idea debates. If you are distracted or fasting, leave it for now. Come back to it with a stimulated mind and a full stomach. We live in an age of cognitive dissonance. That strong bond between people's thoughts, opinions, values and actions is long gone. In other words: do as I say, not as I do. But what caused it? Technology?
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1 month ago |
tribune.com.pk | Farrukh Khan Pitafi
Two notes before we start. One: The term canary trap is borrowed from fiction. It was coined by Tom Clancy in his novel Patriot Games. The counterintelligence method it refers to is actually called a barium meal test and has been in practice for a long time. It is a simple premise, albeit effective. Here, we use the former for its dramatic effect.
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Global growth is not decided by stock markets. Global economic fundamentals, America's economic fundamentals are rock solid. That is why this selling spree is so stupid. I mean we haven't even seen application of tariff per product per country/company.