The Colonial Hangover

We live in a post-colonial world, have we even gotten over with the colonial hangover? Not just from our psyches, but also from our collective lives, also from the institutional framework we follow? 

We live in a world which still uses a system designed to manage the colonies. We were ruled directly before, and now by proxy yet effectively by the same masters. 

Our education system still produce people to keep the same system running, and we feel bad when we find out that a part of the population is not able to get the very education which ensures that our individual and collective lives, and institutions should keep running the way our colonial masters intended to ...

I am even writing this post in English, what's the word for colonialism or post-colonialsim in Urdu, maybe I know it, but how many times it is used in conversations, in media, by intellectuals to highlight anything?

There were effectively three nations at the time of partition, we parted from one, but the partition from the second one never happened, we don't even know what it would be like, how frequently we talk about this?

We perhaps live with an illusion of freedom, and perhaps are so hopelessly dependent on it that even the idea of getting ourselves free from the contemporary system may sound nonsensical to most around. It's rather fundamental to our survival in the contemporary world. 

We can't break free, so we should also know what can't be done in this system. We can't do much to free Palestine, Kashmir ... wasn't Yemen also under occupation? Let's leave it for some other time. Just raise a little voice, do a little protest, slap ourselves in the faces, that's it ... 

The govt. can't even sell electricity at a price it wants to, don't even talk about eliminating interest from the banking system, let alone eliminating the banking system in the first place, and after SBP given it's autonomy, the army I believe can't even fire a bullet without the permission of their masters (IMF etc.) ... and we talk about freeing a people from a tyranny thousands of miles away ...