Apathy kills. And so does calling everything that doesn’t work for you as "the world of stupidity that passes for our country". Tell me you like it, tell me why. Tell me you don’t, tell me
why. Stupid is such a vague term, and so is the word foolish. You’ve talked of
the country. Of ideals and how it cannot fill bellies. It must be the training
from the Department of Social Sciences, but I think the country’s problems, the
challenges it faces, the dynamics of its political process, and the solutions
different sectors give have NAMES.
Poverty. Hunger. Red tape. Corruption. Graft.
Efficiency. Good governance. People empowerment. True democracy.
It’s more than just ’stupidity’ and ‘foolishness.’ Corruption for instance has
deep roots in our culture. And culture can be shaped both by existing realities
and by history.
Don’t just call the country stupid. Or foolish. Because it is part and parcel
of who we ALL are. Because in the end, no one is above everyone else. Or do you
see yourself not as a Filipino, but more as the elusive ‘global citizen’?
I would not want the university to be represented by someone who apparently
does not know a thing about social realities, about governance; who generalizes
things and categorizes them as stupid just to sound as if he bothered to know.
Because if you did, there are a lot of words to call the country’s problems. You cannot just call something stupid or something foolish because it does not
work for you. Or are you just trying to sound intellectual? Are you just trying
to package yourself as "above all partisan politics," above all of us
who belong to the microcosm of Philippine society that is UP?
If so, please widen your vocabulary first. And think of the things you will say
before posting it in a medium where everyone else can read it. Alamin mo muna
kung paano gumalaw ang mga bagay-bagay, bago ka makealam.
Nakakahiya. For a UP student with credentials like yours, you should be very
careful with what you say, more so with what you profess to plan to do.
And for a UP student like me, I would be very careful as well. My credentials
may not match yours, but I would not want to be represented by someone like
you.
You claim to fight alienation, but it is you who alienates yourself from all of
us. You who woe voters only during elections, whose former position entrusted
to you by the UP students you did not handle well. And if i would believe other
people’s claims, you who have abused your student-given authority.
TRAPO.
If anything, my vote this election is a ‘no’ to you.
PS: You claim you want transparency, but you do not publish the bad things people are commenting about you. As my friend who tried to criticize you in your medium said — bakit walang lumabas sa sinabi ko? Scrineen pa ata.
