That the would-be “revolution” that failed the most miserably happens to be the one that was led by the lady who started it all!

Rest in peace Pinoy-style People Power. Congratulations Philippines!

Quoted from An Epitaph to Filipino-style “People Power”

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Indeed, contrary to what some here may think, there is just so much to be said about this “substance” we imagine our society to possses. Take the following excerpt from today’s Op-Ed section on the Inquirer.net:

The continuing harassment of Lozada and his family is not going unnoticed by civil society. Former President Corazon Aquino has thrown her support behind Lozada and has urged those “who support the truth” to speak out against his impending arrest on the perjury charge. Former President Joseph Estrada has joined Aquino’s call. Estrada said, “It is not a democracy where those who speak the truth are imprisoned or threatened to be imprisoned while those who abuse the people run free.” [...]

What is wrong with the picture painted by the words above?

Is it just moi who sees something so obviously disturbing in the above statement? I suppose so, most likely because not too many people process things the way my insightful mind does.

So let me spell it out:

How is it that we are able to use the names Cory Aquino and Joseph Estrada in the same sentence as civil society?

Only in the Philippines can such a cast of grotesque characters be assembled to collectively represent a concept such as “civil society”. One is a lady who we put on a pedestal fit for “heroes” after presiding over — and then perverting — the only real collective “achievement” Filipinos foolishly latch on to: Edsa ‘People Power’ Revolutions. Among the most “successful” of these “revolutions” that Cory Aquino “endorsed” is the one that ousted then President Joseph ‘Erap’ Estrada back in 2001 — philanderer and hard drinker extraordinaire, and convicted plunderer — a true and duly elected leader of the Filipino people indeed.

As if to highlight the utter pointlessness of that whole “people power” delusion that captivated Filipinos’ vacuous minds for the better part of a quarter of a century, recall that Madame Cory recently apologised to Erap for all that — effectively making FOOLS of the millions of Filipinos who flooded the streets of Manila in that 2001 spectacle.

And now, as if to capitalise on the institutionalised stupidity in our society, here we see a major media outfit defining “civil society” by dropping these two names.

Classy indeed.

And as for the esteemed Jun Lozada? Well there’s really not much I can say other than it can be quite hard to bring one’s self to respect a man whose trademark public performance is one that involves hiding behind nuns’ skirts.

But then this is Philippine Society we are talking about here — a society whose definition of its “civil” sector speaks a lot about the nature of the substance it imagines it possesses.

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