Matagal ko ng naririnig yan. Hindi ko naman magawang bisitahin dahil wala naman talaga akong hilig bumisita sa iba't-ibang sites bukod sa facebook at youtube (at minsan twitter).
Pero salamat kay JuanRepublic, siya ang dahilan kung bakit naging makulay ulet ang buhay ko. Ganito kasi yun ee.
Recently, naging mahilig akong magbasa ng mga librong pinasikat ni Sir Bob Ong. At dahil bagong kilala ko pa lang noon si Sir Bob ay naghanap ako ng mga makakausap dito sa mundo sa loob ng internet. Naghanap ako ng mga bagay ng mababasa tungkol kay SirBob. Sa aking pagbabasa, aking nakilala si Sir Eros Atalia, isa rin manunulat. Naging tagahanga rin niya ako. At dahil new meet friend ko rin si Sir Eros, naghanap rin ako ng mga impormasyon tungkol sa kaniya. Hanggang isang araw habang naghahanap ako ng reviews para sa mga libro ni sir Eros ay nakita ko itong si JuanRepublic. Nasisiyahan ako sa kanyang mga pananaw sa buhay-sa kanyang mga sulat. Naging hilig ko na ang magbasa sa mga blog niya. Sa kakatambay ko sa blog(tumblr) niya ay nakikilala ko naman itong matabang sobrang ganda ng sense of humor at ubod ng gwapong si matabangutak (Hello po sir Rhad). Sa kakabasa ko ng mga blog nila, dun ako nagpasyang gumawa ng account sa Tumblr. At yun ang dahilan kung bakit naging magulo ang buhay na hinaharap ko ngayon. Joke lang po.
Naging malaki po talaga ang naging kontribusyon ng Tumblr sa akin. Isa po kasi akong batang madaldal. Mahilig magsalita. Kwento ng kwento. Kaya nagpapasalamat talaga ako dahil natagpuan ko na ang kaibigang matagal ko ng hinahanap -ang Tumblr.
Ang Tumblr, ang tanging natatakbuhan ko kapag meron akong bagay na nais sabihin, importante man o hindi.
Sa kasalukuyan meron na po akong 1 follower at nagpapasalamat ako sa kanyan sa pagfollow sa akin (pinilit ko lang nga yan ee). Maraming salamat sa pagbasa ng mga kathang isip na mga opinyong walang patutunguhan na sinulat ko para sa'yo, para sa inyo (incase na dumami). At sana tulungan mo akong magdasal, na sana bukas maging dalawa na kayo. Amen.
Pag-amin: Nabasa ko ng lahat ang mga libro ni sir Bob Ong. Pero ang kay sir Eros Atalia wala pa kahit isa akong natapos. Hirap na kasi ngayong bumili ng libro, sobrang gipit ko na. Pangdadate ko na lang pera ko, agree? Joke lang.
Pero promis kapag nagkapera na talaga ako, bibili ako ng libro niya(Eros)
On Marcos and his reign and the Martial Law and "bad history" and proper education for the younger generation
DISCLAIMER: An extremely long post about Philippine Politics. It's a taboo topic and I don't intend on fighting anyone on this. Whatever you'll read here is just an opinion of the writer/blogger and nothing beyond that.
Let's just say Mister Juan Republic and I had a "healthy discussion" about former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos.
This post of his caught my attention and I couldn't help voicing out my opinion. I would like to include myself in the said group of "young Filipinos today", seeing as I am only 21 years old and if you do the math, you'd know that I didn't really experience first-hand the infamous Martial Law and the reign of the Marcos's in the Philippines. When I was born back in 1991, the late Corazon "Cory" Aquino was already our president--the one who was voted/chosen to replace Marcos after the first People Power Revolution that made the Philippines one of the most talked about countries in the whole world at the time.
But regardless of my age and the fact that I didn't actually get to at least witness with my own eyes the Martial Law and how much it has hurt the Filipinos who lived back then and what sorts of suffering they went through and all that, I would still say that Ferdinand Marcos was and still is the best president the Philippines has ever had.
*The reply limit is too short for this opinion*
Despite the Martial Law, Marcos was and still is the best president the Philippines has ever had. It's true that I wasn't yet born at that time and never really got to experience the whole "shebang", but that doesn't mean that I don't know what I'm talking about. I've read books, articles and whatnots about the time of Marcos's reign. The Phils was a 1st world country, less crime, high economy, etc.
It just saddens me that people only remember the bad side of Marcos's reign. People only remember Martial Law and the dictatorship and all that negativity. But what they don't realize is how much of the good things that we are experiencing or used to experience before some other president (or whoever), for lack of a better word, took it away from us, was/is because of Marcos.
Not exactly putting the blame on anyone, but if there is someone we should be pissed off at, I believe that that should be his wife, Imelda. She got too greedy and in the vernacular, masyadong naging uhaw sa kayamanan at sa kapangyarihan. Yes, Ferdinand was, let's say persuaded into doing something he shouldn't have done (Martial Law), but he loves his wife and is willing to do anything for her. Although I agree that they both went too far with that decision of proclaiming Martial Law.
Well, I guess all I'm really saying is that, we shouldn't really judge Marcos for making that decision. He still did a lot of good things for our country during his reign and I don't think that anyone deserves to be remembered for what bad things they've done when they were still alive.
Instead of educating "kids today" of how much a suck-ass president Marcos was, why don't we include there why some people still consider him as the best president the Philippines has ever had DESPITE Martial Law.
My parents have always discussed politics in our house when I was younger, specifically issues regarding that of Marcos vs. Aquino and the like. It was pretty interesting since my Mom is pro-Aquino (up until now) and my Dad was an all-the-way Marcos's "fan". They have debated (but not really to the point of seriously arguing) about why Marcos was the best president and why Marcos was ousted and how he really deserved it after all that he's done and how the Aquinos were the best thing that has ever happened to our country and how they saved our country from the "evil doings" of Marcos and blah blah blah.
I have heard both sides and of course, both of them have experienced first-hand the reign of Marcos, down to the Martial Law and the dictatorship and the whole nine yards. And hearing the discussions that they had back then was like me, experiencing the entire thing for myself. What's even more fascinating is the fact that I have a pro-Aquino and a pro-Marcos to listen to. I built my opinion based on the debates my parents had back then and the books, articles, blog posts that I've read from the people who have actually experienced the whole thing for themselves (may they be pro-Marcos or not).
BUT! This isn't really a post about why I think Marcos was/is the best president of our country. Our (John and I) discussion started out because I wanted to point out what he said about kids or young people today having been taught "bad history" through the internet or from other means because he's been hearing remarks like "Marcos was the best president" and "Mas okay pa nung Martial Law" and so on and so forth. I would just like to say that yes, we've been taught "bad history" but for an entirely different reason from why John said that.
When I was in grade school and was only starting to actually learn from actual teachers (because my parents may have their own opinion and they may be true at some extent but it's not really an actual form of education or educating whenever they share with me those opinions) the Philippine history, all I could remember was them teaching us about Martial Law and the dictatorship whenever it came to the time when they had to discuss Marcos's turn as the president. For me, that's teaching kids "bad history".
To be clear, I'm not against any school or educator telling kids about Martial Law, because for one, they have the right to know that and it was--is a big part of our country's history. But what I don't appreciate is the fact that some of these teachers are instilling in the minds of their students that Marcos was a bad president and that all he did for our country was make all the Filipinos suffer. This is basing on experience and what I've actually learned from my own teachers back then.
I never heard any of them sharing anything good that Marcos had done for our country. I never heard any of them saying that back when Marcos was our leader, we were a part of the first world countries and was almost in line with the United States and Great Britain, etc. I never heard any of them telling us that the crime rate during Marcos's reign was close to zero and that the US dollar to Philippine peso exchange rate was less than 10 pesos. I never heard any of them sharing the good values and the great leadership Marcos showed the Filipinos, obviously before the Martial Law was declared. I never heard any of them telling us and sharing with us any of these. Why? That I am still trying to figure out until now.
I have my own theories, though.
Filipinos would much rather have someone to blame for our hardships today than to accept the fact that we all did this to ourselves. It is much easier to say that "Kaya tayo naghihirap ngayon e dahil nagkaroon tayo ng isang presidenteng pinagkatiwalaan natin, pero pinahirapan lamang tayo" instead of actually admitting that or even taking into consideration that maybe the reason why our country's suffering is because of us too.
I don't know how to actually explain this or put it into word but I think that the Filipinos back then became overly "superstitious" (I don't really know what term to use so that's just for the lack of a better word) to the point of removing or demolishing or stopping or...(you get the point) anything that was started, implemented and/or created by Marcos. In return, the Philippines has suffered a great deal because whether we Filipinos would like to believe/admit it or not, a lot of Marcos's ideas that actually came to life made the Philippines a better country.
Some Filipinos who were so involved in the fight to remove Marcos from the office became so selfish to the point of only wanting the future generations to know how much they suffered under the regimen of Marcos, instead of also sharing what good they actually gained from him.
But then again, these are just mere theories of a 21-year-old who wasn't even born at the time. I just get my information from whatever I have read and passed-on opinions from those people who have actually experienced it all for themselves.
The decision of Marcos to put the Philippines and its citizens under Martial Law is pushing it to the edge and was, in my opinion, irregardless of what his point was for doing that, was wrong in so many ways.
I am in no way defending Marcos for that decision. What I am just after is the proper education for future generations--the right education that I was not able to experience when I was still in school. As human beings, we build our own opinion and belief about something or someone as early as, what? 2, 3, 4 years old? So I suggest that as early as those years, instead of instilling in the minds of young people a certain view of someone, let's teach them everything there is to know about this person--the good and the bad--and let them decide whether they would want to like or hate that person. We can't all have parents who have firm opinions about this matter and are actually willing to educate their kid, so s/he could most likely get a somewhat precise picture of what actually happened or what this person's really all about.
So John, I get your point about people twisting history and making it seem like the Martial Law was a great decision for our country, and really I'm all for proper education. But let us also not forget to teach the young ones about the good side of that 21-year-regimen. Because there are a lot and it's being concealed by the declaration of Martial Law and I just don't think that that's fair. After all, the first term of Marcos brought a lot of changes to our country, and a lot of those are for the better. By not telling them that Marcos also did great things for our nation is just like twisting history, don't you think? And for what? For them to perceive Marcos as a bad guy? Then if that's the case, why don't we just not teach them anything at all. Like I said, we should let them decide on their own and form their opinion on their own without any biased basis from people firmly whispering in their ears that it was better back during the Martial Law or that Marcos was a greedy, fucked-up dude that did nothing good for our country and its citizens.
