Of a short-coming.

mood: ridiculously happy

I'm saddened by the death of Jaime Cardinal Sin. I could say that he is one of the most influential religious leaders that this country ever had. I really admire his personality amidst the belief of some (most) Filipinos that he is biased in politics and he shouldn't be intervening with the political arena.

For me... hello? Isn't politics connected with morality? And obviously the Catholic church should be one of the guardians of morality.

Here's a conversation between me and a security guard:
Me: Catholic ka ba?
SG: Oo.
Me: Namatay na pala si Cardinal Sin...
SG: Talaga?
Me: Oo. Kaninang 6:30 ng umaga.
SG: Hindi na kasi ako naniniwala dun e. Simula nung makialam siya kay Erap.
Me:

Do we Filipinos have a problem with short term memory? Do we really care if we are still in the Marcos regime or not?

I guess two of the problems of an ordinary Filipino are: Short term memory and forgetfulness / can easily forgive.

Cardinal Sin had a great impact on everybody during the Edsa revolution. And some people doesn't really care if he did that. They don't care what happened before. Pathetic.

Here's a short theory on why some people are like that. Some (most) people who are living here in Luzon today weren't living here during the Marcos era. They could be living in Visayas or in Mindanao. Due to the news blackout that happened before, they don't really believe that the Marcoses are guilty of the massacres, warrantless arrests, excessive corruption, etc to the common tao.

A follow-up on the ordinary Filipino. If all of us had the marshmallow test, only a number of Filipinos would pass that test. As you can see, regarding the gloriagate issue, people made a big fuss of the audio tape/cd. Since the government made a statement that the cd/tape shouldn't be played in the congress, a lot of people are doing it otherwise.

Filipinos are pasaway in nature. How barbaric.

Can we just go on with our lives?