Who Decides If An Issue Is Dead
I’m busy all week, working on FV matters (mostly on the back end of things), much work related activities, and much reading up on engineering studies too. Some people forget that I’m engineer, since I never actually write about engineering issues or topics, which trust me, I would probably lose all my readers with in one single post.
Today, I will make a little rehash, bring to life so many of my “drafts” and actually publish them for your consumption. Today, one draft that caught my attention, was this little piece, which was my reaction to many statements, mostly coming from the Arroyo camp, to move on…
Who Decides If An Issue Is Dead?
The question is, who really decides? And what is the point in which we can truly say that a certain issue no longer deserves our attention? Just because media no longer focuses on it? But what if the issue has truly never been resolved? Must we follow the tendency to move on, while we bury the an unresolved issue, just because it is no longer in the limelight?
The Malu Fernandez issue, the hazing issue, the death of Cris Anthony Mendez, the ill-gotten wealth of Erap, the election cheating of 2004 and 2007, The NBN deal, The Sulpicio Lines tragedies and the deaths of thousands.
Do we just erase all of these things from our memory and as many would suggest, move on?
What is moving on really, but just another way of saying the word forget? If we must forget, shouldn’t it be the issues that have already been resolved? And yet, we are easy to move on with issues that are as important as our national pride, death, and of course our own right of suffrage.
There will many opportunities in our own lifetime to move on, but we must not let this overused phrase, lull us into inaction, apathy, and being in a never ending cycle of unresolved issues. Let us be resolute and resolve the issues at hand. For a nation is only really able to move on, when it has no skeleton left in its closets, the demons have been exorcised, and the corrupt and unjust brought to justice.
This is the type of moving on our nation deserves. Because those who would love us to “move on”, are the people that we should be weary of. It is the Filipino that has the strength to persevere, and the wisdom to know when an issue has truly been resolved, this is the Filipino that can help our nation.
Whether we put pressure on media outlets, we as Filipinos, and I believe, New Media, have the responsibility towards bringing closure to the issues that have yet to be resolved.
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Hi Nick,
I guess that’s where Filipino Voices or FV comes in or any blog for that matter -a venue where we could and should keep the fire burning, so to speak. We all know that MSM is only after what sells. Once the issue for them becomes passe, stale, and unbankable, they let go. And what happens after is that people start to forget.
I see many reasons why Pinoys are so nonchalant about moving on:
1. We are not consistently impassioned by what happens in our country. We are very enthusiastic in an issue’s nascent stage, but give it a month or two and we just lose interest, going to defeatist stances of “there’s nothing we can do but endure”.
2. We are too guilty of passive consumerism, as we take down whatever trash MSM shoves down our throat, and at least other than in blogs, we hardly ever see people objecting to MSM.
In my analyses of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, I brought up some of the points that I’ve written in this comment. Here’s the link: http://tinyurl.com/6287cu