Last week’s absence seemed like a timely break to take from this column, if only because with less than a month to elections one can get overwhelmed by the mudslinging, and get carried away with the kind of shallow discourse that is on social and mainstream media, which apparently forms “public opinion” alongside surveys based on highly questionable practices – a free phone after the elections to respondents of a mobile survey, ano ba naman ‘yon!
I wish I had the age and the wisdom to be above this all. But with issues like the death of farmers in Kidapawan, and the crisis of drought; with China’s continued construction over at our islands in the West Philippines Sea, and EDCA allowing the US to build structures all over the country; with public infrastructure break down and unthinking development; with hunger and need, poverty and lack of justice, and the Lumad crisis – one is hard put to ignore the coming elections.
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