The Hiatus of Philippine Politics
Today, the Philippines is given to deciding who will be their political leaders. People are rallying in the streets with a shout of either joy or madness. They contest the result of the last May 10, 2004 elections, posting their own desire that FPJ, short for Fernando Poe Jr, won the election and that the present administration of Pres. Arroyo is amending the results of the people's voice. The media is playing the lead role of informing the public. But, you have to choose among them: which is telling the truth and which is hyping. Such a malady; a gross supplantation of the truth. Everybody wills to win and only a few cast their lots.
The hiatus of Philippine politics is much to the grievance of all that even those from the farflung areas of the Philippines, while listening to the radio reports (because no TV is available yet), shouts their grievances to naught. They've pestered their own selves with much afflictions and hatred. They blamed the government for its apparent apathy and ineptitude; they blamed the politicians who were buying the votes in order to win the seat of government; they blamed everyone except their ownselves.
Truly, the political bickering is most serious today that even the small unit of governance forget the truth of true public service.
"I can see that my country is now on the verge of collapse..." says a fisherman. "...and we can only blame ourselves." He added.
"But no!...it is not us who should be blamed..." says the vendor, "...it's a matter of education...a matter of governance...and many other factors that molded the Filipinos of long ago and now inherited by us. We need to look back the past to see the present...'What our ancestors have done before?' this is the great question that we need to answer and understand today."
"Yes, it could be. But there is more than simple things done halfway. We need to realize the things that we have done first; the decisions we've made; the actions that we have undertaken, and to see the result. And look what happened...it's there...the seed of corruption still lingers to every bit of us. We could not deny it," said the old man who's been observing us chatting.
We can blame the Spaniards with their bigoted teachings of the Bible; we can blame the Japanese who taught us cruelty of human race by cutting off heads or stabbing babies while up in the air; we can blame the Americans who taught us education as a way of life; we can blame the first politicians who sold us to invaders; and we can blame everybody who hearkened to the enticing of much evil deeds! This is it!...the seed of corruption is nowhere to be found now but everybody is afflicted with it; and it's no longer just a seed; it's become already the blood of corruption streaming to every single vein of a Filipino citizen. (I'm sorry, but this is what I see. It includes me, of course!)
Now, I could only realize that I am one of the products of this corruptive deeds because I did a single corruption of my own just as everybody did in the last May 10, 2004 election. What I did?...I have accepted the 2 kilos of rice; 2 canned goods; and 2 noodles for a vote to the candidate. This is the first time that I did accept it. This is madness!!!! Anyway, the candidate that I voted won to the grief of others who lost because they could not do otherwise.
Thus, the hiatus of Philippine politics even to the last ditch of clear mind and spirit is marred with a number of kilos of rice, canned goods and noodles. This is the mark of so much poverty...the result of corruption which comes from the poor man himself.
Who to blame???...nah...everybody does it...why can't I or anybody else? United we stand, united we fall... ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ....madness...purely madness...
The hiatus of Philippine politics is much to the grievance of all that even those from the farflung areas of the Philippines, while listening to the radio reports (because no TV is available yet), shouts their grievances to naught. They've pestered their own selves with much afflictions and hatred. They blamed the government for its apparent apathy and ineptitude; they blamed the politicians who were buying the votes in order to win the seat of government; they blamed everyone except their ownselves.
Truly, the political bickering is most serious today that even the small unit of governance forget the truth of true public service.
"I can see that my country is now on the verge of collapse..." says a fisherman. "...and we can only blame ourselves." He added.
"But no!...it is not us who should be blamed..." says the vendor, "...it's a matter of education...a matter of governance...and many other factors that molded the Filipinos of long ago and now inherited by us. We need to look back the past to see the present...'What our ancestors have done before?' this is the great question that we need to answer and understand today."
"Yes, it could be. But there is more than simple things done halfway. We need to realize the things that we have done first; the decisions we've made; the actions that we have undertaken, and to see the result. And look what happened...it's there...the seed of corruption still lingers to every bit of us. We could not deny it," said the old man who's been observing us chatting.
We can blame the Spaniards with their bigoted teachings of the Bible; we can blame the Japanese who taught us cruelty of human race by cutting off heads or stabbing babies while up in the air; we can blame the Americans who taught us education as a way of life; we can blame the first politicians who sold us to invaders; and we can blame everybody who hearkened to the enticing of much evil deeds! This is it!...the seed of corruption is nowhere to be found now but everybody is afflicted with it; and it's no longer just a seed; it's become already the blood of corruption streaming to every single vein of a Filipino citizen. (I'm sorry, but this is what I see. It includes me, of course!)
Now, I could only realize that I am one of the products of this corruptive deeds because I did a single corruption of my own just as everybody did in the last May 10, 2004 election. What I did?...I have accepted the 2 kilos of rice; 2 canned goods; and 2 noodles for a vote to the candidate. This is the first time that I did accept it. This is madness!!!! Anyway, the candidate that I voted won to the grief of others who lost because they could not do otherwise.
Thus, the hiatus of Philippine politics even to the last ditch of clear mind and spirit is marred with a number of kilos of rice, canned goods and noodles. This is the mark of so much poverty...the result of corruption which comes from the poor man himself.
Who to blame???...nah...everybody does it...why can't I or anybody else? United we stand, united we fall... ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ....madness...purely madness...
posted by Unknown | Tuesday, May 11, 2004
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