National narrative today

We've discussed in class how Dil Dil Pakistan was instrumental in helping form a Pakistani national narrative. 'Aesi zameen aur asmaan, in kay siwa jana kahan' - such lyrics point towards something greater than ourselves, an identity, a story that all of us can relate to. Songs that are so stirring to convince the listener to leave everything and pick up arms at the Wagha border. Such songs are important because they are relevant even today. They define the dominant cultural narrative against which future aesthetic forms will be judged. 

Shehzad Roy's 'Laga Re' points to something extremely problematic for the contemporary Pakistani state. Our national narrative has become inconsistent, dormant, stationary. The lyrics of the song are  

'Aas baandh kar tu khaRa hai, tas say mas nahi hota

Tu hai aik aam aadmi, aray bus, ab nahi hota

[Siyaasi Kaarkun / Ali Azmat: Tou kia karun? Himmat haar doon?

SR: Nahi. Laga reh.]

And then the song goes of into a chorus of 'Laga re, khara re and para re'. I think that for every line of this chorus his intended audience is different. The stubborn politician should keep on preaching, the poor should continue lying helplessly on the streets and the literate should keep on cheering the status quo mindlessly. Shehzad Roy's criticism, I believe rests solely on a very important point that the status quo will endure no matter what with the consequence of a decaying national narrative.