However, that abundance of information has not created the type of awareness which can be the vehicle for social change or for that matter awareness which can precipitate a societal magna carta, the overthrow of the status quo or a new political culture.

The next step is the gossip either associated with the concerned actors of such production house art forms, or there can be separate entities, whose social media presence is the matter of gossip promoted by the media groups with a sinister aim to engage the generation Z towards issues, which do not merit deep thinking.

Conclusively, societies like Pakistan can sustain structured changes like the Gen Z inspired one in Bangladesh; where not much has changed but a change of faces.

We invariably live in an information age. Gone are the days, when a coup was reported the other day through the morning newspapers. Now any coup, a complete take over or a hybrid one is played live, rather livestreaming on the networks, social media blogs and other forms of news dissemination. However, that abundance of information has not created the type of awareness which can be the vehicle for social change or for that matter awareness which can precipitate a societal magna carta, the overthrow of the status quo or a new political culture. A closer look reveals that the system in place seems to strengthen in a manner that the prime recipient in the society, the younger generation or generally referred to as Generation Z is manipulated, used, discarded and the end result is a change of faces while the system more or less remains the same. Above all it is deliberately led to allays where it confronts more confusion than a clarity of vision needed to precipitate a social change.

The reasons behind that state of affair emanate........

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