Cory and the Illusions
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/opinion/02opclassic_aquino.html?_r=1
This is for my countrymen who have a very bad time remembering what truth was amid all the lies, exaggerations, self-serving propaganda and slogans. My sympathies are out for those who I've heard were attacked for voicing concerns on moderation, pragmatic reflection, and grounded self-awareness in this time of mass delusion.
I now she is a symbol to many, but that many take forgranted the sacrifice of others, the dirty politics and hard choices she failed to make, and the overall mess she got herself into as a willing pawn by the king makers. When so much hope rode on her heels, she is human after all and not a saint or a hero of legend, and we forget that. We forget that and fail to see the impossible standard that we are faced and can never meet. How can we move forward if it is all "dreams" of prosperity against the hard truth and sacrifice needed for progress.
She is just a person, like the rest of everyone. She couldn't do anything against those who opposed her as history showed, all she could do is be an impotent symbol and illusion of hope... only to string us soo far as to let us fall harder. For that she is not even a monster, but someone who was in the middle of a powerstruggle and blinded by her own conflicting motivies concerning Affairs of State, Religion, her Duties to her people, and her Own Duties to her Dynasty.
Don't remember her as a Saint or Legendary Hero. You need only analyze the usury of her family as their career was built over the name of her dead politician husband. She is not that. She failed, she is human, even when she prayed and tried her best... but she wasn't willing to compromise her family, use the force needed to rebuke her enemies, and she left so many forgotten to suffer long and forgotten.
If you want justice, then remember the unsung heroes. Those who did make the painful sacrifice and paid everything for them. The many who were salvaged, those who were taken from their families in the night, and the bloody coups that came year after year because she could not make that sacrificed she promised to make when she took office.
Remember her as a victim, not of the villains but her own conflicts. Learn from how she failed to make the hard decisions and look to your own life in how we do the same thing everyday. Find strength in anonymity and being part of the faceless massess who will move this country forward- NOT by Heroism but by mundane success in work, family, friends and community.
Do not let the impossible standards rule us into partisanship, extreemism, character assassination and that crap thats happening in order for many self-interested parties can gain political capital over the death of this fellow victim.
Don't fall along with the bad lot.
This is for my countrymen who have a very bad time remembering what truth was amid all the lies, exaggerations, self-serving propaganda and slogans. My sympathies are out for those who I've heard were attacked for voicing concerns on moderation, pragmatic reflection, and grounded self-awareness in this time of mass delusion.
I now she is a symbol to many, but that many take forgranted the sacrifice of others, the dirty politics and hard choices she failed to make, and the overall mess she got herself into as a willing pawn by the king makers. When so much hope rode on her heels, she is human after all and not a saint or a hero of legend, and we forget that. We forget that and fail to see the impossible standard that we are faced and can never meet. How can we move forward if it is all "dreams" of prosperity against the hard truth and sacrifice needed for progress.
She is just a person, like the rest of everyone. She couldn't do anything against those who opposed her as history showed, all she could do is be an impotent symbol and illusion of hope... only to string us soo far as to let us fall harder. For that she is not even a monster, but someone who was in the middle of a powerstruggle and blinded by her own conflicting motivies concerning Affairs of State, Religion, her Duties to her people, and her Own Duties to her Dynasty.
Don't remember her as a Saint or Legendary Hero. You need only analyze the usury of her family as their career was built over the name of her dead politician husband. She is not that. She failed, she is human, even when she prayed and tried her best... but she wasn't willing to compromise her family, use the force needed to rebuke her enemies, and she left so many forgotten to suffer long and forgotten.
If you want justice, then remember the unsung heroes. Those who did make the painful sacrifice and paid everything for them. The many who were salvaged, those who were taken from their families in the night, and the bloody coups that came year after year because she could not make that sacrificed she promised to make when she took office.
Remember her as a victim, not of the villains but her own conflicts. Learn from how she failed to make the hard decisions and look to your own life in how we do the same thing everyday. Find strength in anonymity and being part of the faceless massess who will move this country forward- NOT by Heroism but by mundane success in work, family, friends and community.
Do not let the impossible standards rule us into partisanship, extreemism, character assassination and that crap thats happening in order for many self-interested parties can gain political capital over the death of this fellow victim.
Don't fall along with the bad lot.
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