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Inihandog ng Patidong Asigna at isinulat ni Erin Terten
Published by THE KADENA PRESS.
2037
(Brought to you by the Asigna party and written by Erin Terten)
Why we believe what we believe...
My dear Filipinos, mga kababayan.
Many people of our time are accusing us that we are merely repeating history, looking back into the past and copying what certain people had done. Accusing us as the irrational saying that none in particular is the connection between the economical and socio political immobility of the country and the Chinese question. The state of the nation, they say, the government of our time say that everything is particularly under their control. Well then, if that is true well why wouldn't they control the situation for the majority or if not, all of us could be lifted out of poverty. They also claim that all the things that happen in our country can be explained. They flip on their cameras and try to address the situation, however when asked by certain individuals and activist groups who bring up further and more powerful opposing ideas then to that they remain silent. Over and over again we had been preached that there will be a new order for our suffering nation. The change they say, is here, we are now, they say, facing a new sequence of events that will change this country of ours to the better. Everything that happens dedicated to their definition of "economic change" is theirs (the politicians in power) to blame. Let us have a short summary and dig in deeper to the true state of our nation, the subjects of its politicians, the economy and its workers.
Naturally, our economy was based on farming and agriculture, for we, the archipelago, had been naturally a fixated to this way of life. Any how, we had also our own ways of utilizing our resources all the way back into the past and that made us rich, though due to our environmental position where typhoons, earthquakes and volcanoes our progress has been made laggy and we remain far behind our Asian neighbors. However, that still didn't change the fact that we Filipinos, by god's blessings, had been the most resource rich compared to those that neighbor us. By the time that we, the Filipinos, due to the series of unfortunate, or at best, fortunate enough to be united by colonialism, we had been given the task of defending these lands once more with our own lives. These resources, the lands of the bayan, had been given to us by the divine providence and to that, we should thank him by prayers every single day. It is now understood that we, the Filipinos had been very blessed and very lucky, land and sea, we are resource rich, if not by chance, perhaps by the dictation of destiny.
The government however, still revolves their excuses that our social state cannot be changed due to the lack of resources. Tis statement had come from the same, half-Chinese majority ran government of ours which is very notorious for their corruption in which they all deny as individuals.
We had been, however, under the path in which they (the current government) had built for the sake of "economic change". Many intellectuals however, say that the government could had achieved well enough but only because of our repeated ranting, economic change had been prevented. They still repeat the same old assumptions that says that our job as political activists had only taken away the attention of the people from their "economic change" and due to the lack of support for their movement of their "economic change", again, the "economic change" has been avoided.
Very few have learned to view the problem free of emotion, in its clean form. I will at once begin with the statement they excessively repeat which is “economic change”.
How do they think they can change our economy?
The government in itself has been following the plan of attracting foreign investors in which they claim can totally change our country. agreed, profit may be claimed by the government should they be able to attract these Chinese businessmen into our lands so they may reserve their share of our natural resources, and from that capitalism for raw materials, the government may be able to attain profit. The Chinese style of business over takes that idea, seeing how tall the buildings are in Hongkong, Macao and how very "progressive" Beijing is at the moment, they seek to copy the Chinese way of attaining that so-called progress so that we may be like them.
However, in the process, the welfare of the Filipino workers has been neglected by the government. Like i told before, the Philippines, is fit for agriculture, we before had been very rich due to that kind of industry yet somehow after Marcos the government has seeked to dismiss the agricultural business and go into even "greater heights" by adventuring into the Chinese way. They say that "economic change" can be attained if we, like the Chinese, have these buildings, tall buildings, as seeing tall buildings and the delight to reduce our rich forests into Chinese or foreign capitalist run mining holes for the profit. What comes after for the Filipino people in the process of the attempt to achieve what the western nations had achieved. My dear friends, when we stuck our industry sector into agriculture as our main industry next to steel and lumber, we were the provider and the top exporter of Asia. Until the time when we had become too liberal in our economic policies and decided to do foreigners, who know and care little of the Philippines and its people, do the business, our economic path has become so westernized. Japan, they are a nation with little resources and they also run along the typhoon belt and the ring of fire but unlike us, their national politics are traditional and they are run by their own race and people. Since everyone of them are resorted to be Japanese in their way of life, they support that their own people should raise up and be inventive for their own race to gain and develop from this. But in the Philippines, it is the other way around, we are not run by our own people and that we the Filipinos are not being supported by our own government cause they are not one of us for them to support us, they are just there to gain...for who? For us? As they still follow their economic plans all the economy is resorted for the profit of the certain politicians alone.
As for the corruption and the denial being expressed by the government...may they try to stage what they can in making trials to remove the PDAF, BADAF but the pork barrel will always remain one way or another. The government and who is in it which is in charge of us right now are wise in a form of deceit. If we are ruled by the same people...corruption and decadence will always remain.
The Philippines is actually the smartest, though only second the the US, when it comes to agricultural or rice engineering, the rice institute of the Philippines re the best inventors of these very resistant crops yet again, the current government of ours, very doubtful that majority of them are even considered to be Filipino, believes that our economy can only change by attracting investors. Give thanks Filipino people as to why you and your identity has been reduced to be the most ridiculed in the entire world, as to why many of you are poor, as to why our country is in economic ruin, to those people, to the government whose plans had destroyed our country and had lead us astray.
The government in their current campaigns had repeated and repeated their slogans of "for the common good!" or if not, "For the Filipino welfare and stand by us, fellow Filipinos." Aber, since when had we ever had seen a politician in power had had neither very small eyes and lacking of Chinese blood? Maybe it is because that why we had been economically been lead astray is because the politicians who are neither Filipino in physique nor thinking to see what their foreign ideas are doing for their country.
While they claim the economy is rising and rising, what is coming to us? Are we even feeling the economic change or is it all for profit in which whose blessings are only limited to the foreign oligarchy that run our nation. Capitalism, and consumerism had never been in our character as Filipinos, we had resorted our own societal ways that we the bayan should rest aside as a community and everyone should contribute for the sake of the development of the whole of this bayan. We all resort to the love for family but the Chinese never go to this, they instead resort to ideas that individuals could only achieve more alone as they gain greater freedom and prosperity. This idea however, has been broken by the knowledge of the common good itself that no man in itself is an island and everyone should contribute for that common good.
Common good, is the pat not only to the development of our economy but also in our society but as long as not everyone would want to contribute in it into this collectivist society, as long as there are lonesharks, businessmen and capitalist, this society will always remain divided, common good and peace may never completely exist. However, as much as the socialism in China claims that they are collectivist and they have their own version of the successful bayan, in fact, their people are suffering as everything in that country is centered on the state, the state, is centered on their communist party and their party is centered on their leaders. Therefore, only the leaders are gaining from all this and the rest who are far from him gain less to nothing. As much as we speculate, as political analysts, China has never been communist, instead, Mao had given the path open for the construction of a comfy seat and place for their "communist" party leaders. Well in fact, societal Darwinism exists in an ambiguous form where their society had purely been centered on the government and if you aren't the government, you are nothing. What, in all these conditions, is making their country truly communist when social equality could even barely exist there? While they claim that nations beyond them are filthy capitalists and inequal, had they seen themselves? Had they seen themselves supporting the corrupt north Korean regimes who at all are centered on their Kim jong-Budha?
They further declare that they praise Stalin before and that Mao and his communist party had made some mistakes. Well then we should clap our hands as they had at least declared that their Chinese pope and his conclave has made mistakes! But they turn and hide behind the end as they claim it justifies the means. The fact that Mao in the process of his economic campaign known to us as the "great leap forward", 200 people died in starvation. To this, their communist party concludes, "Just look at us, at least we are better than what we were before!".
But the society should learn not to follow this as immorality has been revealed in their ways. They say China of today is better than the China of before, will in fact, China has never been better in their societal paths, when true equality and justice is seeked, consequences are seen. China and the Chinese could not even be seen supporting the rights of the foreign peoples, where are they when the Uyghurs demanded for their rights and the recognition of their identity? Their movement were peaceful but since it is against the Chinese centrism, they had instead been regarded as terrorists.
Sorrowful, is what i say to the state of China today, though when the world thinks of China they think of the great wall, the fireworks, the noodles and the forbidden city not minding deeper things happening inside the nation. When one is asked if one could visit China here in the Philippines, one shouts "Sure!" fast enough.
But the fact that we are slowly copying the consumerist and capitalist policies of the foreign influenced politicians, our path to becoming a China is inevitable. Our path to inequality is inevitable. Many tried to awaken the public and got killed, most of them, whose movements meant true change are cheated on if their influence has become truly competent. Especially during elections. These are the consequences of fighting for solidarity.
Our economy, will be ruined after sometime because we had been lost from the knowledge to where we are best at, that is because of the fact that our government wants Filipinos to be other than Filipino, they want them to be westernized. In the process of this westernization, we had been reduced to becoming the underdog. These are the consequences of being influenced too much by others, we learn not to be ourselves rather we try to be the other.
For the intellectuals that try their best to support the government trying to outmaneuver us from being proud Filipinos as a key to change, would you please confront the chief editor with this and allow me to listen? Also, the “economic change” emphasizes again and again that they should be followed no matter if they are wrong, corrupt, liar, cheaters or what else you could see in Satan. Yes, we are the true "socialists" cause we care much for our society, in which we call the bayan. Intellectuals, I recommend that you first go to the “internet ” and back to the “ government” and tell them that we are socialists because I myself couldn’t care less how I am called, whether reactionary, Pan-Filipino, a Junker, big industrialist or a communist – I am and will remain a Filipino national subjective progressivist. I have my program in front of me and, as I said earlier, I will pursue it to the last spark of my strength and the last breath in my lungs.
Mabuhay comrades!
Inihandog ng Patidong Asigna at isinulat ni Erin Terten
Published by THE KADENA PRESS.
2037
(Brought to you by the Asigna party and written by Erin Terten)
Erin Terten - the punong (leader) of our Filipino movement known as "Asigna"
Why we believe what we believe...
My dear Filipinos, mga kababayan.
Many people of our time are accusing us that we are merely repeating history, looking back into the past and copying what certain people had done. Accusing us as the irrational saying that none in particular is the connection between the economical and socio political immobility of the country and the Chinese question. The state of the nation, they say, the government of our time say that everything is particularly under their control. Well then, if that is true well why wouldn't they control the situation for the majority or if not, all of us could be lifted out of poverty. They also claim that all the things that happen in our country can be explained. They flip on their cameras and try to address the situation, however when asked by certain individuals and activist groups who bring up further and more powerful opposing ideas then to that they remain silent. Over and over again we had been preached that there will be a new order for our suffering nation. The change they say, is here, we are now, they say, facing a new sequence of events that will change this country of ours to the better. Everything that happens dedicated to their definition of "economic change" is theirs (the politicians in power) to blame. Let us have a short summary and dig in deeper to the true state of our nation, the subjects of its politicians, the economy and its workers.
Naturally, our economy was based on farming and agriculture, for we, the archipelago, had been naturally a fixated to this way of life. Any how, we had also our own ways of utilizing our resources all the way back into the past and that made us rich, though due to our environmental position where typhoons, earthquakes and volcanoes our progress has been made laggy and we remain far behind our Asian neighbors. However, that still didn't change the fact that we Filipinos, by god's blessings, had been the most resource rich compared to those that neighbor us. By the time that we, the Filipinos, due to the series of unfortunate, or at best, fortunate enough to be united by colonialism, we had been given the task of defending these lands once more with our own lives. These resources, the lands of the bayan, had been given to us by the divine providence and to that, we should thank him by prayers every single day. It is now understood that we, the Filipinos had been very blessed and very lucky, land and sea, we are resource rich, if not by chance, perhaps by the dictation of destiny.
The government however, still revolves their excuses that our social state cannot be changed due to the lack of resources. Tis statement had come from the same, half-Chinese majority ran government of ours which is very notorious for their corruption in which they all deny as individuals.
We had been, however, under the path in which they (the current government) had built for the sake of "economic change". Many intellectuals however, say that the government could had achieved well enough but only because of our repeated ranting, economic change had been prevented. They still repeat the same old assumptions that says that our job as political activists had only taken away the attention of the people from their "economic change" and due to the lack of support for their movement of their "economic change", again, the "economic change" has been avoided.
Very few have learned to view the problem free of emotion, in its clean form. I will at once begin with the statement they excessively repeat which is “economic change”.
How do they think they can change our economy?
The government in itself has been following the plan of attracting foreign investors in which they claim can totally change our country. agreed, profit may be claimed by the government should they be able to attract these Chinese businessmen into our lands so they may reserve their share of our natural resources, and from that capitalism for raw materials, the government may be able to attain profit. The Chinese style of business over takes that idea, seeing how tall the buildings are in Hongkong, Macao and how very "progressive" Beijing is at the moment, they seek to copy the Chinese way of attaining that so-called progress so that we may be like them.
However, in the process, the welfare of the Filipino workers has been neglected by the government. Like i told before, the Philippines, is fit for agriculture, we before had been very rich due to that kind of industry yet somehow after Marcos the government has seeked to dismiss the agricultural business and go into even "greater heights" by adventuring into the Chinese way. They say that "economic change" can be attained if we, like the Chinese, have these buildings, tall buildings, as seeing tall buildings and the delight to reduce our rich forests into Chinese or foreign capitalist run mining holes for the profit. What comes after for the Filipino people in the process of the attempt to achieve what the western nations had achieved. My dear friends, when we stuck our industry sector into agriculture as our main industry next to steel and lumber, we were the provider and the top exporter of Asia. Until the time when we had become too liberal in our economic policies and decided to do foreigners, who know and care little of the Philippines and its people, do the business, our economic path has become so westernized. Japan, they are a nation with little resources and they also run along the typhoon belt and the ring of fire but unlike us, their national politics are traditional and they are run by their own race and people. Since everyone of them are resorted to be Japanese in their way of life, they support that their own people should raise up and be inventive for their own race to gain and develop from this. But in the Philippines, it is the other way around, we are not run by our own people and that we the Filipinos are not being supported by our own government cause they are not one of us for them to support us, they are just there to gain...for who? For us? As they still follow their economic plans all the economy is resorted for the profit of the certain politicians alone.
As for the corruption and the denial being expressed by the government...may they try to stage what they can in making trials to remove the PDAF, BADAF but the pork barrel will always remain one way or another. The government and who is in it which is in charge of us right now are wise in a form of deceit. If we are ruled by the same people...corruption and decadence will always remain.
The Philippines is actually the smartest, though only second the the US, when it comes to agricultural or rice engineering, the rice institute of the Philippines re the best inventors of these very resistant crops yet again, the current government of ours, very doubtful that majority of them are even considered to be Filipino, believes that our economy can only change by attracting investors. Give thanks Filipino people as to why you and your identity has been reduced to be the most ridiculed in the entire world, as to why many of you are poor, as to why our country is in economic ruin, to those people, to the government whose plans had destroyed our country and had lead us astray.
The government in their current campaigns had repeated and repeated their slogans of "for the common good!" or if not, "For the Filipino welfare and stand by us, fellow Filipinos." Aber, since when had we ever had seen a politician in power had had neither very small eyes and lacking of Chinese blood? Maybe it is because that why we had been economically been lead astray is because the politicians who are neither Filipino in physique nor thinking to see what their foreign ideas are doing for their country.
While they claim the economy is rising and rising, what is coming to us? Are we even feeling the economic change or is it all for profit in which whose blessings are only limited to the foreign oligarchy that run our nation. Capitalism, and consumerism had never been in our character as Filipinos, we had resorted our own societal ways that we the bayan should rest aside as a community and everyone should contribute for the sake of the development of the whole of this bayan. We all resort to the love for family but the Chinese never go to this, they instead resort to ideas that individuals could only achieve more alone as they gain greater freedom and prosperity. This idea however, has been broken by the knowledge of the common good itself that no man in itself is an island and everyone should contribute for that common good.
Common good, is the pat not only to the development of our economy but also in our society but as long as not everyone would want to contribute in it into this collectivist society, as long as there are lonesharks, businessmen and capitalist, this society will always remain divided, common good and peace may never completely exist. However, as much as the socialism in China claims that they are collectivist and they have their own version of the successful bayan, in fact, their people are suffering as everything in that country is centered on the state, the state, is centered on their communist party and their party is centered on their leaders. Therefore, only the leaders are gaining from all this and the rest who are far from him gain less to nothing. As much as we speculate, as political analysts, China has never been communist, instead, Mao had given the path open for the construction of a comfy seat and place for their "communist" party leaders. Well in fact, societal Darwinism exists in an ambiguous form where their society had purely been centered on the government and if you aren't the government, you are nothing. What, in all these conditions, is making their country truly communist when social equality could even barely exist there? While they claim that nations beyond them are filthy capitalists and inequal, had they seen themselves? Had they seen themselves supporting the corrupt north Korean regimes who at all are centered on their Kim jong-Budha?
They further declare that they praise Stalin before and that Mao and his communist party had made some mistakes. Well then we should clap our hands as they had at least declared that their Chinese pope and his conclave has made mistakes! But they turn and hide behind the end as they claim it justifies the means. The fact that Mao in the process of his economic campaign known to us as the "great leap forward", 200 people died in starvation. To this, their communist party concludes, "Just look at us, at least we are better than what we were before!".
But the society should learn not to follow this as immorality has been revealed in their ways. They say China of today is better than the China of before, will in fact, China has never been better in their societal paths, when true equality and justice is seeked, consequences are seen. China and the Chinese could not even be seen supporting the rights of the foreign peoples, where are they when the Uyghurs demanded for their rights and the recognition of their identity? Their movement were peaceful but since it is against the Chinese centrism, they had instead been regarded as terrorists.
Sorrowful, is what i say to the state of China today, though when the world thinks of China they think of the great wall, the fireworks, the noodles and the forbidden city not minding deeper things happening inside the nation. When one is asked if one could visit China here in the Philippines, one shouts "Sure!" fast enough.
But the fact that we are slowly copying the consumerist and capitalist policies of the foreign influenced politicians, our path to becoming a China is inevitable. Our path to inequality is inevitable. Many tried to awaken the public and got killed, most of them, whose movements meant true change are cheated on if their influence has become truly competent. Especially during elections. These are the consequences of fighting for solidarity.
Our economy, will be ruined after sometime because we had been lost from the knowledge to where we are best at, that is because of the fact that our government wants Filipinos to be other than Filipino, they want them to be westernized. In the process of this westernization, we had been reduced to becoming the underdog. These are the consequences of being influenced too much by others, we learn not to be ourselves rather we try to be the other.
For the intellectuals that try their best to support the government trying to outmaneuver us from being proud Filipinos as a key to change, would you please confront the chief editor with this and allow me to listen? Also, the “economic change” emphasizes again and again that they should be followed no matter if they are wrong, corrupt, liar, cheaters or what else you could see in Satan. Yes, we are the true "socialists" cause we care much for our society, in which we call the bayan. Intellectuals, I recommend that you first go to the “internet ” and back to the “ government” and tell them that we are socialists because I myself couldn’t care less how I am called, whether reactionary, Pan-Filipino, a Junker, big industrialist or a communist – I am and will remain a Filipino national subjective progressivist. I have my program in front of me and, as I said earlier, I will pursue it to the last spark of my strength and the last breath in my lungs.
Mabuhay comrades!
The award, note the pages.