You’re over-intellectualising a very simple truth.
Pakistan’s crisis is not because systems didn’t consolidate it’s because one unaccountable institution never allowed any system to consolidate in the first place.
PTI proved that when you actually let people vote freely even without an election symbol, without a party, with the leader in jail the public still delivers a two-third majority.
That alone destroys your entire bell-curve theory of fear based control.
People chose despite fear, despite violence, despite censorship.
That's not cultism that's national consensus.
You say classes must align for the military to blink…
Well, they already did
middle class voted PTI
poor voted PTI
Pashtuns voted PTI
And even then, the system STILL couldn’t manage them on 17 seats, which shows who is actually in fight-or-flight mode and it’s not the public.
Pakistan’s out of control parasympathetic system isn’t a natural condition it’s manufactured by those who panic every time civilians stand up.
Imran Khan broke that fear for the first time since 1971, and that is why the entire machine collapsed on top of him.
So no this isn’t a philosophical crisis.
This is a simple story:
A nation finally chose, and the gatekeepers refused to accept the choice.