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A damaged culture NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 04/08/2011

Friday, April 8, 2011

A damaged culture

NO HOLDS BARRED
Armida Siguion-Reyna
04/08/2011
American Rhodes scholar James Fallows said this of ours, in an article published in The Atlantic Monthly a little over a year after Edsa I. The publication wasn’t well-known to the average Pinoy, but the essay aroused great indignation hereabouts, especially from those yet to tire from talking about the “bloodless revolution,” “the glorious four days in February,” “People Power,” and other such catch phrases describing events that led to the exile of the Marcoses to Hawaii.

Angriest were the johnny-come-lately activists who believed the Marcoses to be the problem and nothing else but, those whose history of activism were all of the four days they had spent outside Camps Crame and Aguinaldo, and their having voted for Cory Aquino, after the true-blue militants had declared a boycott of the 1986 snap elections. By the time some of the genuine aktibistas had decided to join the race anew, it was too late: the perfumed set had breasted the tape at the finish line, untouchables who would not stare criticism in the eye and for whom the saying “bato-bato sa langit, ang tamaan huwag magalit,” did not work..... MORE

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