While I write this down, thousands of people are being mobilized along EDSA to begin yet another round of cries for Freedom and Democracy. As I stare at my monitor, people are screaming at PGMA out of rage due to poverty, the ever-present scum that eats at the Filipino people. It is a far cry from what took place more than twenty years ago as nuns and men in arms held hands and prayed for the country’s deliverance; yet, it is the same scene. A different crowd, crying out a similar fate. A different culprit being charged – whether justly or unjustly – for a similar crime of lambasting the life of a people and a nation.
I wonder at those people who could be feeling exactly as I feel at the moment. I wonder at the amount of dejection they must hide. I am tired of EDSA. No matter how many times we try to relive this moment of a Nation’s uprising, we will always find our un-united selves on different sides of the fence, at varying times depending on our beliefs, biases and own austere opinions. The biggest loss is for the people in the streets, many of whom are too uneducated, and who could have very well been used as spawns by those with bigger interests, and who find too much to lose to march their angst on the streets.
I feel saddened at the state of my country whose people could find it in themselves to trample each other, including the weak and the elderly, to win a chance at lottery game shows. I am deeply disturbed by a society that has lost its faith in the government, regardless of who owns the seat of power. I am worried that no matter how many times history is repeated, people may never learn, regardless of the indications that I thought pointed the other way. But more than anything, I am enraged at constantly warring sides of the elite few, and the personal vendetta of people in power to turn the state of the nation this way and that to achieve their means, at the cost of lives of millions of Filipinos who work hard for a living and pay their taxes, regardless of insurgencies and price hikes imposed by faceless sectors.
Sounding fascist yet?
