schadenfreude

Last night, a talk show guested Tessa Prieto-Valdez, all was trashy bourgeoisie stuff but she was right on one thing though, WE ARE ALL JUST A TINY SPECK IN THIS WORLD. Generalization: people should ought to stop thinking (or talking) about emselves. Ironically, twas weird hearing it from someone who dresses unconventionally just to be talked about (or i don't know, maybe its just her fashion style. well, if that's the case, she should really get a stylist. don't worry Tessa, you're not alone).

I finished reading the evuuur controversial blog of Brian Gorrell, if you have no idea, read the papers. haha OOOOR click on this.

Well, he is definitely hitting on something BIG, the Lopezes, Tim Yap, Tinio, etc. Average ugly (Haha) people, only, with lots of money who cant function really well without cocaine and some booze. What can you expect from the high society of a Third World Country.

But, the bigger issues are still afloat. Address them, i will. Act on them, we will.

I believe that the Filipino masses are the real strength and soul of the country, but that tiny, corrupt, soft and decadent ruling elite had usurped all our rights and monopolized resources.

But if one fights right up to the ball, one can win in impossible situations. And one losses only when one gives up. Failure, i found, was sometimes more useful than success - provided you made a careful diagnosis of your defeat and then worked hard to eliminate your flaws. Losing is a disaster only if you let it demoralize you. The more one challenge one self and took risks, the stronger and better one became.

I realized that an independent judiciary was integral in protecting the weak from the powerful, the poor from the elite, and ushering genuine democracy and prosperity in my homeland. The system in the Philippines had evolved into the point where criminals and crooks would enter politics by whatever means necessary, since winning office afforded them virtual immunity from prosecution. Nepotism (as well) disgust me like a rotten apple in the hands of Eve.

Majority should belong to an anti-status quo party. We should struggle for judicial independence and social and economic justice. In a country where there are vast disparities in income and wealth and where millions, like us, live in poverty, the privilege (people with access to proper education and the opportunities it brings) should start changing things. Being privileged imposes an obligation as well, an obligation to a cause larger than one self. And that is what they should spend their latter years trying to fulfill instead of plotting how to harness more money, money, money.

Now, if we tolerate more people (like the Gucci Gang), where the hell are we heading to then? We are feeding the addiction of others, and killing the lives of children. My niece don't know what corruption is, but she is paying for it. Schadenfreude; simultaneously delicious and horrible, perhaps like eating chocolate-covered-cockroaches.