Being a 'tween' during the first EDSA prepared me to appreciate what's happening in the current media-presented political life of the Philippines.
I still remember my Araling Panglipunan teachers, Mr. Jordan and Ms. Beldas, asking us for news cut outs as assignment for our Current Events topic starting with THE snap elections up to that eventful day one February 25. And being part of the Special Education program of the government then, as one of the students in the acceleration class, the discussion is, let's just say - impassioned :- )
A danger with this ability to appreciate is that you will catch yourself being pushed to lean and to get comfortable with an emotion designed to be felt only for a short while - anger. And when the anger is stoked and one will conclude that things are moving slowly and anger becomes jaded. Numb. Detachment happens next.
I caught myself running up that ladder of inference yesterday and I awoke from the song of the mermaids :- )
There must be a better way of using time other than following angry old men :- )
But if there's a take away from the experience is this - I now see how men build a democratic nation.
Yes, the Philippines is espousing democratic values but we are still building the Philippine nation to become a democratic country. A country for the people, of the people and by the people.
If it is true, what the social scientists say, that it takes 40 years to build a nation then we are still half way there. Let's talk about what the Philippines is by 2026 and not be swept way by the rhetoric of lawyers who currently hogs the limelight. Because it seems that these lawyers are making most of their 15 minutes of fame so that the next client will pay them more :- )
"...why think like mere men?"
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