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Showing posts with label feudalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label feudalism. Show all posts

Monday, December 24, 2018

Kaisipang feudal di nawawala sa mga karaniwang Pilipino

It is more fun criticizing

AMBUSH. AKO Bicol partylist Representative Rodel Batocabe was shot dead while at a gift-giving event for senior citizens and persons with disabilities in Daraga, Albay. File photo


Ang isan ideayang nilalabanan ng mga aktibista ay ang mindset systemang feudal, ie may patron na nanganalaga sa kapakanan ng mga nasasakupan.  At ang mga nasasakupan ay naniniwala na walang mangyayari sa kanila kung hindi sila kakapit sa patron:   landlord, politiko o sino pa man.

Kaya lang ang sistemang ito, at pag iisip na ito ay nagresulta ng:

           1.  Ang lahat ng pangangailanangan ng mga tao:  panganganak, edukasyon ay sagot, katungkulan
                ng landlord, ng gobyerno:   kaya libreng gamot, health care, edukasyon at lahat

          2.   Ang mga tao ay naging dependiyente sa mga amo nila.   Kaya nga malaking event ang eleksyon:
                Kung sino panalo may trabaho, may kontrata

          3.  Kaya pagkatapos ng eleksyon bayaran ng political debts, utang na loob para mabayaran ang
               ginastos sa eleksyon.   Ang eleksyon ay maipapanalo lang kung kumpleto sa bala,  tauhan at
               pera.  Ang mga lords ay may mga sponsor - ninong na babawi matapos ang eleksyon

         4.  Dahil malaki ang stakes, tumutubo kandidato at padrino nila, ito ay ginigirian at pinag aambisyunan
              ng marami.  Nagkakaroon tuloy ng away gulo hangganng patayan.  Gaya ng nangyari sa mga
              pagpatay ng mga opisyal sa La Union, CDO (taga Bukidnon)  at Daraga Albay (Batocabe)

            Mga patayan bago magpasko mula sa ABS CBN

            Rep Rodel Batocabe ng AKO Partylist, pinatay sa Daraga Albay matapos senior citizen gift giving
            Unang congressman na nadedo sa ilalim ng  Du30 admin


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Hanggang hindi natitigil itong sistema at pag iiisip na ito, uulit ang cycle.  Patuloy na magulo ang politika, pamahalaan at sosyedad sa ating bansa.

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Today, the elected officials last May 13, 2013 take office

Social and political criticisms

All the elected officials last May take their oath of office today - a rain and typhoon filled day. Perhaps it does foretell the troubled and difficult journey ahead for the officials.

For most of us, both the governed and the officials, some clarifications have to be made on the role of government.  Government can not be an employer or providential. Its role is to govern rather than take care of the needs of the underprivileged and less fortunate. It does not have the resources to do that.  The European countries that did it are now bankrupt.

Many citizens think it is the government's duty, including that of the officials to provide them with their daily needs;  forgetting that the duty to live and survive, and thrive belongs to the individual.  We are all against politics of patronage and dcpendency and feudalism yet this action is clearly that.

"Ask what you can do for your country, not what your country can do for you" (John F Kennedy) should resonate in to the ears and heads of this fellow citizen parasites/dependents.

The elected officials, one Senator in particular pander to his particular need of the electorate.  And at the end of the day, we do not alleviate poverty;  we worsen it.  If we have majority of our citizens working hard to produce goods and services, then we may get out of the pithole of poverty. 

If we still continue to see a beeline of citizens at DWSD, PCSO, the social secretary of the Mayor, then nothing has changed and the whole cycle of dependency continues