I'll step in very briefly to post my thoughts on the upcoming elections in the Philippines. Then, maybe another about the US elections? Then I'll go back and post more images. :-)
You know the story of the boy who was locked up in his dark room almost all his life, and one day finally saw the door wide open, his captor missing, the abundant sunshine and wide green forest beckoning to him?
However, just a few days and nights in this new environment, the boy got too scared of the new things - "creepy, crawly stuff, the whispering wind, things that go bump in the night". So he went back and stayed in his "safe" cell. (If this were a movie, this is when the audience collectively shouts "Ay, tanga! Kainis!" ["That's stupid! He is frustrating!"] ).
Well, it is eerily similar to what's happening back home with the Presidential elections. Barely 30 years have gone by from our last dictator, a lot of people are toying again with voting into office someone with similar tendencies. People are willing to risk going back into those dark times, for a promise of some semblance of peace and order. Some justify it as "dipping merely their toes", see what happens. However, Jefferson wisely said "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
That we look to someone to discipline us says MUCH more about us than the man.
And for some of us watching this unfold, we can only sigh and join the movie-goers' chorus.
