Most Filipinos don't think anymore. In social philosophy we call them the HERD who sway with the direction of the multitude. For them life is a jungle where the fittest survive. They therefore thrive in compromise no matter what. This may be the kind of Filipinos Rizal wanted to educate for these Filipinos don't have personal decisions but decide only in accordance to the direction of the MANY. For in education in its strictest terms is not an end but a means to a higher end which is arming the people with the ability to make right decisions with very little compromise.
Our politicians and upper class are mere SHOPPERS who look at life as a marketplace who decides on important matters based on their calculation of pleasure over pain. If I look and reflect at our situation I feel distressed and my contingency becomes paramount. In the end I often resign to the fact that there is nothing we can do. Those who tried often end up dead--LIKE RIZAL.
But I do believe that we will have our time as a nation to be enlightened. European countries had their own ups and downs especially during the dark ages (476-1000 AD). The US suffered the great depression. I engender the thought that countries are not separated by "first-world" or "third-world" categories, or by land or by sea... but we are most especially separated by TIME. When the Greeks were philosophizing what were we Filipinos thinking of? When Romans were fighting with brilliant tactics what do we have for war? When riches abound in the English realm, what is our riches compared to theirs? When Egyptians were building pyramids, what were we building for our dead? When the Jews were talking to YHWH, to whom do we worship... the stars? They had their time; we will have ours. The only difference though is they developed in a neutral ground with no outside pressure. In our time we are under pressure by globalization.
I do hope after these sufferings we had and more in the future God forbids, little by little we will grow in maturity and start the change that we needed regardless of the pain or the sacrifice it may ask of us.
Our politicians and upper class are mere SHOPPERS who look at life as a marketplace who decides on important matters based on their calculation of pleasure over pain. If I look and reflect at our situation I feel distressed and my contingency becomes paramount. In the end I often resign to the fact that there is nothing we can do. Those who tried often end up dead--LIKE RIZAL.
But I do believe that we will have our time as a nation to be enlightened. European countries had their own ups and downs especially during the dark ages (476-1000 AD). The US suffered the great depression. I engender the thought that countries are not separated by "first-world" or "third-world" categories, or by land or by sea... but we are most especially separated by TIME. When the Greeks were philosophizing what were we Filipinos thinking of? When Romans were fighting with brilliant tactics what do we have for war? When riches abound in the English realm, what is our riches compared to theirs? When Egyptians were building pyramids, what were we building for our dead? When the Jews were talking to YHWH, to whom do we worship... the stars? They had their time; we will have ours. The only difference though is they developed in a neutral ground with no outside pressure. In our time we are under pressure by globalization.
I do hope after these sufferings we had and more in the future God forbids, little by little we will grow in maturity and start the change that we needed regardless of the pain or the sacrifice it may ask of us.
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