Katanungan ni MAS

Ililista ko dito ang mga mumunting katanungan ng murang pag-iisip ni Franz Kyros, na matagl ko na gustong gawin (na inumpissahan ko na nung May, pero nagiging pattern na yata dito ang mga pangakong walang katuparan -- wala na nga pera wala pa ring wento, tang-na). Kung sino man ang makakapagbasa dito, patulong nama sa pagsagot.

1) Tumatae din ba sila wonderwoman? Superheroes sila di ba?
Galing ni Mas. Biruin mo, ayon kay Milan Kundera, sa Unbearable Lightness of Being, matagal ding pinagdebatihan kung umeebs ba si Jesus Christ. Daming theologians ang nagsambit ng kanilang kuro-kuro. Ang pag-ebs nga naman ay maaring mangahulugan na hindi sya lubos na dyos. Ewan ko kung anong naging kasagutan ng Vatican dyan. ewan ko rin kung umeebs si Wonderwoman, di ko rin alam kung umuutot sya.

2) Bakit mali ang speling ng grin sa grin department. Di ba ang berde ay spelled "green."
Pinaliwanag ko na ang grin ay iba sa green. Ang grin ay ang pagngiti. Di ba ang ngiti ay smile? Pero grin din un, magkamukha ang ibig sabihin nun. 'Bat nga naman di na lang smile, kelangan pa ng salitang grin kung pareho din lang naman yun. (Pero gusto nya yung count to 10 ng grin department).

Salute

For those who see beyond the mascarades of lies, the charades of the desperates, and the purifying-ness of water amid the putrid smell of a stinking institution -- I SALUTE YOU. No amount of water cannons can put the fight for liberty down. You're much braver to a weakling confined in an air-conditioned glass trying to give the best financial deal there is to his family. But -- Philippines history is replete with this -- don't be the "someone whom you used to hate, " as the movie "The Paper" puts it, when at the end of the rainbows, you find a pot of gold there. I am your armchair follower.

I sympathize

The column speaks for itself. There was no reason, but misguided passion. Yes, Raul Pangalanan, a one great lawyer in a country where lawyers and liars are often the same, has been targeted to silence. He has been receiving harrassment by the day. Being robbed of the deanship, now someone has attempted to break-in to his office. I read also that a one fathead has been argiung the abolition of UP Law Center for being too critical to its patron -- the government. I agree, in a world of patronage politics, UP Law Center has no place, irrelevant and a breeding ground for dissent. Raul Gonzalez has a point too that UP has no gratitude for the government, so it is also irrelevant as well. I think they should all endorse bahay ni kuya as must-see, to condition that the government is contemplating to up the tempo of its surveillance. Or require reading 1984 to every classroom, and every government employee. Enough of this sarcasm!
One way to determine the desperate-ness of a cause, or course of action, is when it begins to target intellectuals, to pre-empt open debates and flow of communications. The power of reasons will be suppresed by the power of goons, guns and gold. They will intimidate, they will destory credibilities, they will kill. But, yes, time and time again, when they succeed in silencing a dissenter, someone will take up the cudgel and carry on the struggle.
For those who lust afor power, and will do anything to cling to it, epoxy-style, Albert Camus is right-- power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Politics of the Desperate, Politics bereft of Morality

Putang-ina, gusto ko sanang ung posts ko dito wala pulitika -- i'll just leave Conrad, Raul and Randolf to expound on the current poltical malaise, but as Pete Lacaba once said -- the student movement of my salad days ensured that this will not be lost on us -- "it's impossible not to get involved, to remain a spectator forever."

Year 2026. The father watching a vintage simpson episode in a multi-dimentional technology was approached by his son. "Dad, what did u do when Gloria was trumpling human rights and torturing Philippine democracy." "I was in my job, trying to provide our family the basic needs." "But dad, what are material comforts if you are not free, when you are gagged even before speaking, jailed even before writing, or salvaged even before being tried in the court?" "Ah, but the entire population then is apathetic, maybe people power fatigue." "But does that justify your inaction. Thanks, we ragained the freedom last year, but i think the Philippines will struggle to heal the wounds this wrought for the next 20 years. Our neighbors have really left us behind, in fact majority of the can-afford fFilipinos can be traced to prostitution, our specialization now in trade -- freshly flesh trade."

1995. Oh the years of exuberance blended with a sense of drift. Call it youthful exuberancewith a touch of Gen X. This past generation, fuck, they always fell into nostalgic romanticism of teh FQS. They did not realize that it is different now -- the US Bases were gone, USSR disintegrated, UP now has more cars parked than the student population anfd faculty combined. WE have our own struggle, i tell myself. But why is it that i feel a strain of envy for not ever presenting the conditions to serve a loftier call. No alternatives. Even the left is in disarray, with
rejectionist reaffrming their doctine and reaffirmist rejecting the rejectionists. Ang gulo, idelogy is taking a backseat to materialism. Grunge is dead, backstreet boys hurray. Pwe.

--- to be continued ----