Thursday 24 June 2021

Thoughts after Noynoy Aquino's death

Thoughts after Noynoy Aquino's death


This note needs not to explain further, but in the end, it is the discretion of someone else whether to move on or mourn- especially to a person who has fair share of fame and shit. Pardon for the latter, especially after those times of inclusive growth, attempts for "sound" reforms, even defending a nation's sovereign rights against a sleeping dragon, and from being a borrower to a creditor country. On the other hand, he and his administration was implicated in such tragic events such as SAF44, Typhoon Yolanda, Lumad Killings and closure of Lumad schools, the failure of the land reform program (despite passage of CARPER), even the corruption-marred PDAF and DAP, and of course, the peace negotiations between the government and rebel forces.  

For the ordinary, they can be easily swayed by criticism of "simply because he's a Cojuangco-Aquino", "an oligarch", a "yellow", and hence susceptible to be heckled and prayed for his death two and fro; But for a concerned, that by recognising those feats and failures would say that "it would be nicer" by treating his legacy with a grain of salt- that would realise Noynoy first and foremost sworn to upheld a corrupt, antiquated social order that the folk of course, detested badly same as his surname; while recognising that same Noynoy who tries to make his subjects bringing faith back in the administration if not the government in its entirety. 

Otherwise, he's just a man prone to criticism because of his mistakes, shitstorm because of his appearance, and an outright ignore as any other stranger. It so happened that he's the president of the "republic", and realistically speaking, people would have "moved on" for this as if nothing happened if not for the pronunciamentoes blared from print, radio, tv, and even online.

Perhaps, let people mourn for him, and let others criticise the bullshitries done during his administration, after all, this country tries to appear "democratic" as possible; but reality becomes more obvious that people will just shrug it off as any other event because "they're busy" and therefore "leaving it to god", if not telling frankly that "they don't go to somebody else's wakes".