The more you look, the less you see
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Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz |
There is nothing either difficult or funny about the glaring truth that there are times when in fact people see less, the more they look — at certain realities, situations or events.
This is exactly the case when so much is claimed, yet so little is seen, so many perorations are made but so little is done. And this truth remains no matter what impressive publicities are made, whatever statistics on paper are presented and read. Thus it remains despite all elaborate ostensive addresses made surrounded by expensive decors — ually accompanying state declamations.
And such is exactly the glaring reality about the national situation during the incumbency of the present administration. Having taken over a leadership commonly perceived as the incarnation of graft and corruption, the now Malacañang tenant obtained a good number of votes. These were basically votes of high hope for a better Philippines through the anticipation of better leadership. More: The Filipinos in general reasonably expected for the said successor in government to “hit the ground running.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110721com9.html
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