Pakistan: The Revolution Will Not be Televised, will not be TikToked

 

The "revolution" in Pakistan (2023)

"The revolution will not be televised, brother."   

                                                                         Gil Scott-Heron (1971)
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The revolution will not be televised
It will not be on X or Facebook
Nor on Instagram, YouTube or Tiktok
It will not be brought to you
By the smug hordes of Youthiya, or
The ugly swarms of Patwari Bootiya
Nor by the secular keyboard warriors, or
The farting, jihadi maskharas--Sunni or Shia.

The revolution will not be televised brother
It will not be brought to you
By the depraved, navel-gazing narcissists
Role models of corruption, vile opportunists
The stars, celebrities and the influencers
The fashionistas, Coke Studio and PSL scum
Irredeemably conceited and comfortably numb.

The revolution will not be televised at all.

Listen! Listen you bamboozled clowns!
You can't have your cake and eat it, too
You cannot have your change a la "tsunami"

As you lust after haram naan qeema, dog meat biryani

And no honor, no respect, no dignity and dreams

For the addicted with Internet porn and TikTok memes

The revolution will never be televised brothers

As long as the television remains
The tool of choice of the Shudra khaki oppressors
There will be no pictures of Pindi pigs 

No pictures of them shooting the innocent
Of kidnappings and disappearings

Of torturing and murdering.

And there will be no Sharmeen Obaid docudramas, either
Those despicable spectacles of self-loathing nativists
Exclusively made for the liberal gaze, to soothe

The guilty conscience of the crypto-racists
To comfort and to please

The genocidal Universal White Imperialists.

The revolution will not be televised brother
It will not be televised
It will not be Tiktoked
It won't be Facebooked, nor YouTubed.