Marcos100

Those of you who believe there is nothing wrong with commemorating the 100th birthday of a tyrant known in world history as one who , together with his family and cronies, pillaged the country and made life worse for millions of Filipinos til now, shut the f**k up! I have had it with your hopeless ignorance if not utter arrogance. 

You aren't Filipinos because you have no sense of history or you are appropriating history to serve your own vested evil interests. You should join Marcos in hell and please bring his immediate family with you. 

I have had it with so-called highly educated Filipinos who earn their living playing apologists if not outright propaganda machines for this atrocious family who continue with impunity to disturb and derail our socio-political life as a people. Education is wasted on you. Hope you choke on the food and wine you get to afford because you write or speak as you do for this inglorious family. Same wish goes to media elements who even if they weren't old enough to experience Martial Law, choose to contribute to the twisting of facts , past and present.

I have had it with the current president who has no shame in imposing on us the reverence of one most despicable former president. He obviously idolizes the devil and if not for the fact that he's old and possibly dying, this current president is a Marcos wannabe. More than that, he wishes to outdo his idol in scoring more deaths than the late dictator's record. In this aspect, the present evil leader is already successful. 

When are we going to wake up to the evil that surrounds us once again? The present regime is one grave mistake we have once again committed as a people. When are we gonna learn? 

FEAR OR APATHY?

I was just talking to my daughter about the stress the thinking and concerned sector of society suffered from this week. She mentioned the comeback of an ousted exec director who is now bullying the one who replaced him.They (in her office) were also affected not just by delayed salary issues but by the piling up of young victims of EJK and of course the issues involving the president and his son which still many turds refuse to connect to the WOD.

I remarked that in my workplace, a school, these concerns (political and criminal) do not seem to disturb my colleagues and students. If ever they do, my workplace people are good at not showing it. Truth to tell, if not for the fact that I really enjoy my work and my clients (my students), I am deeply saddened by the apathy that prevails esp among my colleagues.

We have just been thru a career fest which ate up at least three days of our school week. This weekend is report card completion for the class advisers. I am not an adviser and I am done with the grades a week ago. Still small talk seldom centers or even mentions the killings which involved young people, same age as our students. No one bothers to mention them. I do, in class, but my students seem to dismiss this as my usual anti-Duterte rant. Or at least that's how they make me feel whenever I mention issues re the president.

This made me recall my high school days (1975-79) in a private Catholic school in our city. It wasn't easy to talk about the state of our country then because of Martial Law. My history teacher in whose class one would expect political and social issues to be discussed , opted to teach on safe mode, so to speak-memorize the who, what, when in history. I think it was only on our senior year that our teacher finally let his guard down and in an after class huddle around his table he admitted his anti-Marcos sentiments. That was some breath of fresh air and hope for me, for us. I think that made me more prepared for my entry to the state university where teachers gave us more dissenting opinions/stance than we could handle. Of course we handled them well , we who were in the thick of anti-Marcos protest either as students or as student council officers.

I now worry about the young in our care in the school where I teach. The teachers just don't deliver more than the content of the subjects that they teach. Young and old alike, teachers now seem detached or opt to detach the classroom from the world and reality outside. This is what happens when many among teachers actually thought Duterte was on the right when he promised to annihilate everything and everyone connected to illegal drugs. He was just into instilling fear so he could govern unopposed. We should now realize that he wasn't actually sincere in solving the drug problem.

More than this though, what worries me is the fact that many teachers and their students think it is okay to kill a person if he is perceived to be a "problem" to the community. Schools weren't built to inculcate this belief. Why aren't they alarmed? Why aren't they grieving? Why aren't they saddened by the loss of young lives? What happened to these schools then?
 

It's moral panic . See wikipedia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic Thank you , Mr. Irineo Salazar for this.

Sabi nga ni Lourd:..... wala tayong saysay!

 
Bukod sa wika, mahina rin ang pundasyon ng ating mga kabataan sa kasaysayan. Narito ang ilang patunay.

1. Itanong sa mga nagsisipagtrabaho na ngayon kung bakit holiday ang ilang petsa sa kalendaryo bukod sa Pasko, Biyernes Santo at Undas. Mas madalas di nila alam ang importansiya ng petsang ginugunita.
2. Maraming kabataan ang nag-aakalang  maganda ang sistema ng pamamalakad ni Marcos. Utang na loob!
3. Marami rin ang nagsasabing pinakawalang kwentang gobyerno ang kasalukuyan. Ilang administrasyon na kaya ang naranasan nila?
4. Marami ang di nakaka-realize na ang June 12 na ginugunita natin taun-taon bilang Araw ng Kasarinlan ay paglaya lang natin sa naunang mananakop-ang mga Espanyol.
5. Marami ang alipin ng paniniwalang ang Estados Unidos ay lagi nating kakampi, na kapakanan natin ang lagi nitong nasa isip.
6. Maraming nakapuesto ng panahon ni Marcos ang nakakapagpasasa pa hanggang sa kasalukuyan, di tinutuligsa sa naging papel nila sa panahon ng Martial Law.
7. Marami ang di alam na ang wikang Filipino ay pinaghalu-halong mga wika ng ating kapuluan  kabilang na ang Ingles, Espanyol, Arabo at Tsino. Hanggang ngayon Tagalog ang tawag nila sa wikang laganap.
8. Marami ang saliwa pa rin ang pagkaintindi sa sigalot na Muslim-Kristiyano sa Mindanao.
9. Marami ang nag-aakalang magkatunggali sina Rizal at Bonifacio at patuloy silang pinag-aaway.
10. Marami ang nag-aakalang ang mga opisyal ng pamahalaan ay miyembro ng mataas na lipunang dapat pagsilbihan. Sino ba ang public servant?

Ilan lang ito sa mga obserbasyon ko. Marami pang manipestasyon ng kakulangan sa paggagap at malalim na pang-unawa. Nakakatakot dahil sa media lamang umaasa ng kaalaman. Paano kung limitado sa opinyon ng maangas na broadcaster ang maririnig tulad ng taxi driver na makulit ang opinyon sa nagaganap na arestuhan sa PDAF?