Guess what folks! Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino Jr does have a platform! And it looks like this:

Considering that Noynoy’s website had recently been glossed-up, I suppose it is quite safe to assume that the above also represents an “improvement” over what Ben Kritz described as a “non-platform” back in late August of this year.

Not the most promising-looking of platforms, isn’t it? Perhaps this bizarrely strong inclination to march towards progress in reverse among Pinoys is what also explains our beholdenness to popularity metrics whenever we set out to choose our next leader.

Courtesy: UtakNgTilapia.com

What has always been a candidacy that makes a fuzzy appeal to the softer aspects that dominate the Filipino’s general sensibilities is kinda off-putting to the more analytically-inclined voter. Indeed, Noynoy’s brilliant strategists have at last addressed that serious gap as there is now some cause to associate Noynoy’s candidacy with a bit of the kind of technical jargon that appeals to the more analytical mind:

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I can’t help but highlight yet another irony that escapes the collective mind of the Philippine political establishement and its cadre of “expert” analysts.

Aquino’s glossing up of his website and the disappearance of the only section in it that would have housed the only semblance of substance underpinning his candidacy is symbollic of our society. In the same way that the flurry of property “development” that characterised the last several decades of Metro Manila’s history added a veneer of gloss over the metropolis that masked a hideous infrastructural rot, Aquino’s website “improvements” reflect our society’s march to progress:

Paatras ang asenso
(Progress in reverse)

And so we continue our march to 2010…

Courtesy: UtakNgTilapia.com.

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