I think the writer in me doesn’t want to close down this blog.. haay..
one reason is because it became too much of an avenue for dissent and i believe that by maintaining this blog i might be able to stir up some consciousness in the youth of today.
I just finished writing a comment in pcij’s blog
When someone trivializes hunger it falls short of saying to a Domestic Helper that is a victim of rape in Middle East “I blame the filipina working there, because they knew they are going to be raped yet they choose to work in that country”
GMA did just that other than adding insult to injury she even passed the accountability from her table and washed her hands like Pontius Pilate.
In looking for solutions for the dillemma one can only think of the question:
“After all that is happening why the hell is she still in power?”
Whenever I go home from work or even when I’m just walking home or to wherever i keep asking that question over and over again in my head.
Not that the absence of a credible opposition comes to mind more often rather, the question of content in the eyes of the masses, of learned helplesness and the romanticization of poverty.
Perhaps the challenge and the eventual outcome of being called a survivor rings true in their ears, just as Rocky vanquished all his enemies after being knocked out a number of times.
Perhaps that state of consistency with indifference kept them surviving because they don’t know any other life to begin with that kept them rooted in this sense of submission.
I personally don’t know the solution nor the answer.
A high ranking police official called for the obliteration of an organization recognized by the constitution and nobody dares question that statement nor file a case against it.
A former military General has been quoted time and again that “He” will be more than happy to liquidate any legal or non-legal member of that organization, a clear threat and abuse of power and yet nobody dares file a complaint against him.
While it is unspeakable that both parties committed almost equal spate of violence at each other and at some time on their own comrades, I leave it to them how they will settle the competition.
But what bothers me most is the intrinsic empathy coming from society.
It leaves me bothered even more when universities keep mum on them as well.
Lets look at it this way the massive left lost its credibility as well as the military and the government.
So where do the people go to?
The universities and the media either lives off with the news they can scrape or adapt to the almost running sorry state of future employment. (by the way somebody just died because of stress in a call center-the person just worked there for three months)
Again where do the people go?
EDSA that mythical avenue of dissent closed down by policemen, and now we see military personel in civilian clothes roaming our baranggays raking as much havoc against legally mandated party list re-electionists.
So where do the people go?
Plaza miranda now almost dead. Nobody could stage a rally anymore without ever being tagged as a terrorist.
It is true the people have now gone…
I am not going to pass any judgment, for I also blame myself in this process.
I am also as poor as everyone only an education from a University paid by the masses kept me breathing in this massive frustration.
I also felt hunger once and I also had the propensity to look for small dignities in my everyday meanderings.
And to make GMA more happy I even blamed myself for all the injustice that happened in my life and my country.
So where does that leave me?
I read some time ago that a representative of the silent middle class majority would rather leave the government alone and live their own lives. (That was Bong Austero I think).
He is now a celebrated columnist (pun intended) in a newspaper and writes articles (perhaps he is not that silent after all)
I also believe that he is already old.
Now there is this great debate of the ages you see, I really believe that perception and experience differs exactly with the chronology of ones’ birth except those who really appreciates reality and its precepts.
Most of them if not tries to compare the era they once lived in. They being old and wise think that they know better than the youth of today does.
Let me give you an example.
Most old people would look at security and stability as the final arena of gauging success. so they see a rising peso. Sees rallyists silenced and sometimes lynched. Sees an election coming and judges that people can vote, thus they are really choosing their leaders.
The recent study of GCAP proved them wrong and the continuous silence of Comelec in the amateur video submitted to them showing military men campaigning against progressive party list groups again gave them a face value of whats’ in store for them in the results of this years’ election.
They think that sitting in an office desk or sipping ones’ coffee in starbucks would merit opposition or dissent or just by talking about the idea harshly again merit some points of contention against the government.
But rallying in the streets and being an “activist” doesn’t.
Or better yet there are those old people who were ones’ activists and regrets their being one encourages the young ones to follow suit.
Neither which could actually give any less difference in what is our imploding doom as I see it.
There is a need nowadays to be more proactive.
To be more critical of the status-quo and to believe in the adage that “Nobody crosses the same river twice”.
That if we don’t fight poverty now in our minds we can never satisfy the hunger of the body.
We must end this nonsense of self-pity and submissive dissonance.
For history will judge GMA harshly, and so are we.
