"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." – George Santayana (The Life of Reason, 1905)
I write this in the morning of the day after my countrymen cast their votes for the national and local elections. This 2022 edition is proving to be probably the fastest count on record in Philippine history. (Really, a happy feat if one knew the disappointing pace of the counting of votes in this universe of polity!)
Anyway, to set the record straight first off: I am neither a KakamPink nor a BBM loyalist. And neither did I vote. In truth, my political orientation stands on the fringes -- I walk on the tightrope of the political spectrum allowed under a democratic state. Thus, I am disinterested.
Disinterested yes, but not uninterested. I cannot gag myself and not reflect on what I saw, heard, and experienced these past months and far back. Like the many (I hope so!) critically-thinking homo sapiens this side of the world Cogito ergo sum.
At best, however, I admit to these thoughts as hurried, on-the-side, and squeezed in-between housework and work-from-home. At best, they are marginal notes on the new book that the majority of Filipinos decided (fortunately or unfortunately, we will see) to write as their own.
And so, rather than consign my thoughts to Facebook for example where they live only for a day as a story or a few days at most as a post, I write them into a book to negotiate additional manna.
I pray for grace from the Lord, my only Messiah, that through this I would have done my own little part so that this and future generations will learn some lessons of history and will not be doomed to repeat it.
In omnibus amare et servire Domino. City of Muntinlupa, May 2022.
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Marginals from a Disinterested: Musings on the Philippine Elections 2022
Non-FictionReflections on the recently-concluded Philippine Presidential Elections 2022.
