Two revolutions, past and proposed
The first made millionaires of prawn farmers but led to the destruction of mangroves. Too bad the article didn’t name the lawyer who bent the law banning the destruction of mangroves by cutting off water supply to the trees until they died. There’s no law against cutting off dead trees. Smart asshole.
The second are radical proposals for Constitutional amendments that will make the presidency less palatable to traditional politicians. The proposals include 1) removing the power of the President to appoint military officers and Supreme Court justices and 2) professionalizing foreign service, i.e., disqualifying the inexperienced and non-foreign service personnel from getting appointed as ambassadors and consuls. Right. That should get rid of the practice of rewarding retired government officials with plum appointments for the usefulness to Malacañang during their incumbency.
Problem is, who will vote for amendments like that given the realities of Filipino culture? I used to be as naive and as dreamy-eyed as the guy who wrote that article but one has to wake up sometime.
A third of what’s been written about me is true, a third is half-true and the rest consists of drug-induced hallucinations. I suppose I’d better let me, rather than them, tell you 
13 responses to "Two revolutions, past and proposed"
Recentstudies conducted here in Korea proved that politicians and retired military officers are the worst managers and CEOs,maybe this is the reason why we cannot see any progress in Philippines.
Yep, too many of them in appointive positions.
Connie, are suggesting that you were once this beautiful, naive and dreamy-eyed optimist that now has become this droopy-eyed, chain-smoking realist? C’mon, you can do better than that.
Naive and dreamy-eyes decades ago.
Beautiful then and now.
Smokes, not chain-smokes.
Still an optimist but no longer naive.
Every time I read articles like this, parang gusto kong hakutin ang buong pamilya ko at lumipat sa ibang bansa. Unfortunately I’m too old for that and my investment is concentrated in the Philippines. Kaya all I do nalang is – think of a happy place, think of a happy place, think of a haaappy plaaaceeeee!!!
ha ha ha Blogus Vox, there is no place like home take it from me.
ed v. - no matter what, uuwi me to my lupang sinilangan. I love and proud of my country. It’s the people running it that pisses me off.
Wala namang perfect country with a perfect system. It’s shitty here because I’m here and that’s what I see. I might be singing the same tune if I were some place else. There might be truth to the saying that ignorance is bliss. For people to whom none of this makes sense, well, they can’t be all that unhappy.
Tignan mo nga naman, for starters, just among the three of us ( myself, Connie and BlogusVox) could easily be the foundation of an investment firm fulfilling the 60% privilege provided to us in Article XII of our Constitution.
Huh?
Huh? What? Different from the customary bellyaching isn’t it?
Wala namang perfect country with a perfect system.”
But there was a society with a perfect system before their culture was destroyed by white men, the Bushmen of the Kalahari dessert. To me, they are the perfect example of what communism is all about.
BlogusVox, hmmmm you might have a point there although the perspective of an outsider looking in might be different from that of someone who lives with the threat of drought and the elements day by day. I do share your implied view that smaller communities are more manageable and more conducive for promoting collective interests. It is the concept of nations and empires that destroyed them.
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