Pinoy Pilgrim Foundation Mission/Vision | Fallen Idols: Tiger and Manny |
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What a bloody November it has been! Manny had his ears bashed, his face puffed, and Krista came into the limelight like a Venus rising from a giant clam. Tiger had his lips smacked, his SUV wrecked, and Jamie (or Rachel, depending on which news report you follow) began her 15 minutes of fame. In the mix of post-fight scenarios – not the one on the Las Vegas ring but in the Thanksgiving Mass, and not the one in the Australian golf course but in an Isleworth mansion – we have learned how excellent role models can turn out to be nothing but pieces of dung. But let’s not judge our idols harshly. In the absence of adequate information, I’d rather give them the benefit of the doubt and hope that the reports of their adulterous behavior have been grossly exaggerated. Can public figures really have a private life we shouldn’t meddle with, as some make us believe? Or shouldn’t they rather grow up and see that part of their job is to admit that people admire them because of how they (seem to) live excellence in all aspects of their life? Many politicians made the steamy transition from professional excellence to the art of the impossible, and the reason people admire so few of them is that most professionals-turned-politicians ended up like greedy swine at the trough. Rare indeed is the politician who kept his or her integrity intact while swimming through the political estero. I know many excellent managers who rose through the ranks by dint of hard work and moral rectitude, only to get swallowed up by the system soon after savoring the sweet nectar of power and influence. How many CEOs worshipped on the pedestal of Wall Street turned out to be fakes who merely rode on a wave of financial chicanery and MBA mumbo jumbo? Lots! That’s what the RH Bill will expose, and the one reason why our country’s political brain trust will be exposed as the clowns they have always been. Now, everyone blames the poor multiplying like bacteria in our urban Petri dishes. Everyone also blames the Church who keeps the poor ignorant of the panoply of birth control strategies made available by science. To the last woman and man, they blame our growing population for the backward economic development of our country. But when our honorable lawgivers pass the RH Bill, and we reduce the number of poor people, humiliate and expose the Church as the backward-thinking, anti-progress interest group that it is, and start educating millions of boys and girls and men and women on how to practice safe sex so they can become responsible adults, then our politicians will run out of excuses to hide their incompetence. This is their vision, to make us finally see that people were the problem, and that the best way to eliminate the problem is to eliminate people. Sounds logically simple, right? I see it clearly now. The Philippines will be a developing country, getting rich beyond our wildest dreams, full of responsible people who, like rabbits, can have sex many times sans HIV-AIDS and the responsibility of having and raising children. What if they’re wrong? If you support the RH Bill, it means you are among the millions of Filipinos who believe the promises of honorable politicians. I guess that’s what passing the RH Bill makes of the Philippines: a country of fools run by fools elected by fools. Let me warn the politicians though: fool the people too much and they will turn into a mob that will tear you to pieces. Manoling de Leon Senior Citizen Republic of the Philippines |
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| Last Updated ( Tuesday, 22 December 2009 ) |
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