As the country turned 111 years older last June 12, so did it lag our undying sense of optimism. Does optimism reside on the Filipino itself, or is largely rooted from our consensus? We have notice a great deal of convergence and divergence since the Marcos regime, we don’t need total change. What we need is to fill the gaps of our “Filipino sense” to higher moral grounds.
The Philippines’ successive scenarios are plaguing; too much of rallies, too little sentiment from Malacanang; too wrong address to the problems and too right democracy of the people. Our scenario has been bombarded with many acts of graft and corruption impending nowhere, coups cluttering for better prospect of agendas, issues which compartmentalize our deemed agendas as something irresolute and minds which has been long muddled vis-à-vis “spoiled nationalism”. Where did charter change ever fit in these concerns?
Or rather when did charted change ever become rightful as such to alleviate the status quo? If the government opt to specifically respond to the concrete social problems generated by this evolving world, charter change ought not to be an option or last resort. It is thus through education which people should be molded reasonably. That in assessment, youth empowerment is just one result, social integration and economic ascendancy follows. In relevant terms, democracy would ground impressionistic assessments that Philippine realities need. Never it is on the side of repelling against what the people want.
Economic development through jobs, should then be the next priority, more than national autonomy; popular democracy and accountability; personal freedom and dignity; and global peace and human survival. to further ease poverty. Because an increase upon economic development signifies we have used our means to justify the end. That we would know where our whole existing systems – access to justice, access to housing, access to land, access to education, access to leisure, access to health, access to every conceivable service or good on which so much public money is normally being spent really goes.
That too many lives have been sacrificed for senseless killings of the intertwining fate of this archipelago. Again, there is a must to re-imagine who we really are and what we need to do inorder to have what we want to achieve.
That Filipino morals is never on “sale” when it comes to taste about the government since lives are pledged here and agendas are never on a bargain for the common good. It must fit no matter how varied our culture is to the underlying postulation of happiness at the end of the day. Because what make people happy is not the type of government at the end day but the freedom from restraints of the conjectures of devils who thinks they are wise.
i doubt freedom makes people happy.! not having it can make feel bad but having freedom is it just enough certain not for long. if you are correct then western world should be more happy not bhutan..
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Paradox of choicethat's nice book.