“I’m tired of hatred, Dr. Garrigan, our country is drowning in it. We deserve better.”
This line from the film “the Last King of Scotland” reminds me so much of our country. It is precisely hatred that has provided the downward pressure to the upward force of a surging economy and I am very much tired of it. But hatred has permeated deep in our society and I am actually quite amazed at how quick even regular citizens are in sowing speculations and conspiracy theories. It is quite clear that what we have now is a culture of hate.
Who do we blame for the current state of our country? The President, yes, ofcourse, the President is guilty. BUT SO ARE YOU AND SO AM I. The Media, the Church, the Business Clubs, the Academe, and yes, must I forget, the great orators, the senators, are all equally guilty of why we are in this sad state.
We have failed this country because we have chosen hate over unity, animosity over goodwill, hostility over stability.
Upon reading this, the arrogant, those who believe that they have the monopoly of rigtheousness, with their nose pointed up in the air, would say, YES, of course, we choose hatred, hatred of corruption, hatred of evil, that is. Evil? Everybody hates evil. It is a matter of how you effectively address evil. How you confront it and what results do you achieve after confronting it the way you decided to.
Hatred has been used to drive the search for justice. Hence, many of us look at justice as the legal method to crucify the sinners depending on our moods and whims. A Witch Hunt. A Vendetta.
This sense of justice would make us blind followers to a cult whose blind goal is to raze this country to ground until every living being that ever walked or crawled this land will have to either leave or suffer the subsequent economic deterioration.
This sense of justice promotes hate, further division, and utter destruction.
How about the millions of Filipinos living in poverty? What do all of these mean to them? What about those without food and clothing? Is this the justice they are looking for? What about those without jobs? Will this justice give them paychecks?
You see evil. You confront it. Many see this as the end of the struggle. I see this as the beginning.
Hatred has blinded us so much that we think that through hatred we can create jobs, produce food, and build roads. But this is not the case.
Hatred has blinded us so much that we think that just by hating we are already achieving something.
I have made this point again and again, but I cannot reiterate enough that the more we allow our hatred to violently confront the ills of the current system the more we push these ills, the more we solidify them and further entrench them in the system. Hence, we achieve nothing but create a vicious cycle.
A few weeks back, I read an article comparing Gibo's supporters to a bunch of guys satisfied eating their burgers with somebody else's phlegm on it. You can read hate between the lines. Obviously, the writer's initial goal was to convert some soft Gibo supporters into voting for someone else. But using hate as the driver to achieve his objective, He failed miserably. Those who were thinking of voting for Gibo, upon reading this hateful article, moved towards solidfying their ties with the Gibo team. This is what happens when hate takes the driver seat. We forget about effectiveness, we forget about results and we make hating the end-goal.
We have seen so much hate and it brought us nowhere.
So now, I ask you... I dare you... How about some sense of mercy?
Mercy: not for anyone but for our country and for our people.
Mercy: to provide hope, unity, stability, and progress.
Mercy: so that for once, we may have the chance to become a strong united country with the noble aim of finally being able to take our rightful seat among the world’s most respected nations.
It is only through mercy can we forgive the sins of our painful and hateful past.
Only through unity can we take flight towards our bright future.
Only one leader offers us unity over hate, goodwill over animosity, and stability over hostility.
I think it is just wise for us to take his offer.
GIBO TEODORO FOR PRESIDENT
MAY 10, 2010
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An enlightened and educated population will see through the hate and bigotry. Using GMA as their fodder(she doesnt reply, have you noticed that now?), hate is being cultivated with the mistaken idea that as they bring out the dirty linens, whether real or contrived, that people will view them as knights in shining armors ready to do battle for the people. How mistaken they are. Mudslinging has a way of returning back a thousand folds against the instigator, and while for a time one can fool the people, it will become evident that that is NOT always the case.
ReplyDeleteThe main use or function of the word “Evil”, when stripped of its unsustainable pretensions to describe or explain anything is to frighten populations into acquiescence to the extension of power over them by ruling elites whose legitimacy might otherwise be called into question. For it is not common values or characteristics that unite political entities such as states in the modern world but common enemies, who are either wholly imaginary or whose power and malevolence are much exaggerated.
ReplyDelete-Philip Cole, The Myth of Evil
Another masterpiece, Leondro Lojo!
ReplyDeleteFor sometime now I have heard, "how can people who are so negative effect positive change?"
But I liked how you described that when hate is a goal, you lose sight of the effectiveness of the action. "Hatred has blinded us so much that we think that through hatred we can create jobs, produce food, and build roads. But this is not the case." Brilliant!
I also discovered this article that states that anger is the dirtiest style of politics because it agitates people and stirs up their emotions to get them to your side. http://allgiboteodoro.blogspot.com/2010/01/against-campaign-of-hate.html
Supporters of the party of hate are also beginning to be very negative and wearing an aura of anger ever since campaigning started. That is so sad! Let's stop the hatred and anger. Let's go for positive change. Go Gibo Teodoro.