I've had this for a few years now, and I again, think that I should be paying for this site, as it helped me recover to the state that I am in now..all happy and shiny, well about love that is, I'm so NOT happy and shiny about many other things--> the state of our nation, hunger around the world, environmental degradation...
but in any case, I am now, opening this blog to the world. I'm a little worried about the criticisms and crappy comments about my thoughts, worried that I may post some sort of racial slur accidentally (like I did yesterday on fb!) and get crucified for it (sheesh, isn't that another rude thing to say?)
But I have been encouraged by a few friends, that I write real, and I write raw. I'm not trying to gain popularity, and I have no affiliations with anyone. I love my friends and am not here to share their dirty secrets. We all have secrets. We are also all human, so be nice, okay?
I'm also trying to import my posts from friendster, but, I'm not too good at this, as tech savvy as I am, I can't download torrents.
My thought for today is:
The Philippines Sucks. It really does. Its time we all owned up to it. Our politics suck. The fact that we have millions of hungry people makes us suck. The fact that we are getting robbed blind by people in power makes us suck. The fact that our senate meets about videos instead of doing their work and we STILL watch it on TV makes us suck. We have a false sense of social with all of our swanky malls, our coffee shops and country clubs, but at the end of the day, we don't care about each other, about our nation, but we will happily complain about it.
When are the people in power going to answer for the problems they have caused? And when are we going to take responsibility for making our country the way it is because we have been apathetic?
hmph. not shiny and surely not happy.
Here it goes!
Friday, June 19, 2009
People and their power
Our society has many problems. More ills than the days of Noli Me Tangere and the cancers described. In actual fact, those cancers have morphed into something even worse, faster growing and more deadly, and we don’t have Jose Rizal to write about it anymore. We do have some bloggers who have so much to share, but maybe it’s the acquired apathy of being screwed over for so long, or the hunger that others feel so they don’t have enough energy to focus on rallies and taking a stance or that there are too many blogs people get confused..I’m not really sure where the problem lies..
The situation is so complex now its hard to determine exactly who needs to act to get a serious uprising, a serious government willing to pave the way for us, and, from my green perspective, a serious citizen, willing to fight against environmental issues.
It has been proven over time, that one man can make a difference, that people who stand together can make a change. The question is, aren't you sick of how things are right now? And what you are you going to do about it?
Did you join the rally or was it just 'so init' you couldn't stand the heat? Do you sit in your car alone driving to work, happy about your 'quiet time', not even thinking twice about carpooling and utilizing resources a little better?
Tell me your stomach didnt turn when the senate took in the whole video scandal, with matching throwing of water on that idiot who got caught taping his girls. I couldn't even stomach watching the telenovela unfold, in real time, with the boy looking over his shoulder saying 'my life could be in danger, they could have people in here'..
I deserve a better government, one that stands for my rights, for my basic needs. You deserve a better government, one that is just and moral and with dignity. We all deserve a better country.
I am angry. You should be too. If there were a rally here in Laos, I would travel the 4 hrs to Vientiane to attend it, to show that I am sick and tired of this all.
With great power comes great responsibility, don't people get that anymore?
The situation is so complex now its hard to determine exactly who needs to act to get a serious uprising, a serious government willing to pave the way for us, and, from my green perspective, a serious citizen, willing to fight against environmental issues.
It has been proven over time, that one man can make a difference, that people who stand together can make a change. The question is, aren't you sick of how things are right now? And what you are you going to do about it?
Did you join the rally or was it just 'so init' you couldn't stand the heat? Do you sit in your car alone driving to work, happy about your 'quiet time', not even thinking twice about carpooling and utilizing resources a little better?
Tell me your stomach didnt turn when the senate took in the whole video scandal, with matching throwing of water on that idiot who got caught taping his girls. I couldn't even stomach watching the telenovela unfold, in real time, with the boy looking over his shoulder saying 'my life could be in danger, they could have people in here'..
I deserve a better government, one that stands for my rights, for my basic needs. You deserve a better government, one that is just and moral and with dignity. We all deserve a better country.
I am angry. You should be too. If there were a rally here in Laos, I would travel the 4 hrs to Vientiane to attend it, to show that I am sick and tired of this all.
With great power comes great responsibility, don't people get that anymore?
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