Let’s pause to take a quick breather from our pre-occupation with our little tingi-tingi civil war in the south, and reflect on 25 years of “progress” :o since you-know-who made the ultimate sacrifice.

The Philippines after Ninoy Aquino: What has changed?

I’m not one to come up with hollow-headed conspiracy theories but war has always been an effective tool called upon by governments to divert people’s attentions from immediate personal miseries and broken election promises. In this light I find it interesting that considering the significance of the Number 25 with regard to anniversaries, not much chatter about the 25th birthday of our 500-peso bill has been heard around here.

By the way, for those of us belonging to the much maligned Generation Y crowd, ATOM stands for the August Twenty One Movement — the original yellow-flag-waving gang led by Butz Aquino that started us all down the path to our national 15 minutes of fame in 1986.

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