The Ballistics of Economics and the Gasping Humanity

The Ballistics of Economics and the Gasping Humanity

The trajectory of human history is often curated as a triumphant march from the desolation of prehistoric caves to the sophisticated sanctity of human rights charters. Yet, as we navigate the third decade of the twenty-first century, a haunting suspicion arises: we have not eradicated our primal ferocity; we have merely draped it in the clinical elegance of advanced technology. When the poet-philosopher Allama Iqbal lamented that “the sense of c…