THAT was a brainy literary gem you spewed out re: the cyberworld.
GMA and company have not really internalized the essential implications of the cyber age. Global Pinoys are much smarter than government thinks; smokescreens, stonewalls and old, tired PR jobs are no match to truth crisscrossing the blogs, IMs and e-mails. In the battle of ideas, the truth always wins and liberates in the end.
Notice the ever-increasing feedback from the OFW intelligentsia, thanks to the Internet? Once the Pinoys of the diaspora have tasted democracy/justice in their essential substance (if not form), no superficial antics can withstand morally progressive ideas homing back to the land of their birth.
It reminds me of T.S. Eliot — more expats are gazing back at the motherland and seeing its unique beauty for the first time. It’s a wonderful sight, though excruciating at times from my perspective, this slow moral maturing of Juan de la Cruz/John of the Cross inside and outside geographic boundaries.
Bravo to Joey DV for making the painful decision of taking the high moral ground! The baton has been passed on to his generation.
Thanks mucho.
– Hernan Hormillosa, Queens, New York
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September 27th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Well GMA et. al. knew the implications of the cyberage and even tried to augment Pinoy capability wihtin its geographical boundaries through the NBN and Cyber-Ed
deals with the lofty ideal of providing a friendly environment for ICT ( information. communications, and technology ) but failed to capitalize. Both transactions are now in limbo.
They started on the wrong foot.
September 27th, 2007 at 8:54 am
It would be more notable if this “maturity of Juan dela Cruz” attributed to internet access be seen and felt on a broader spectrum.
The Philippines ranked 10th in Asia in internet penetration with only 7.8 percent having internet access. We’re disappointingly lower than Iran and even Zimbabwe.
The internet is a source of knowledge for 20 percent of Pinoys but only 7.8 percent have internet access!
September 26th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
To: ding estraza
Hi, ding! I’m a simple blogger who gets easily intrigue. So now, I’m intigue by your comment. Here’s why, and I’m citing here an analogy somewhat parallel to your comment related to Joey DV and the NBN/ZTE deals. Here goes: Somebody reported a crime, a horrible crime regarding this NBN that if true will subject us taxpayers to pay for the scam without any benefit to us if the project is pushed through. Now here comes you, ding, castigating the guy who reported the crime instead of finding out if the report is true, even hinting that those who report a crime is an instrument of evil that your god must destroy. Good thing that you also wish for a better society and a prosperous Philippines. I salute you for that, ding. But, do you actually think that condemning people who reported a crime the best way to attaining your wish for your country?
September 26th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
To Marco Diaz
Whatever Estrada did, it has not much to do with that which you blame him. And it looks as if you did not really know what has happened.
First, he is sentenced for plunder, not corruption, even there was no public money involved in the cases he is sentenced for.
Second, there was still no real proof that he personally profited from that money that was said to have been paid. If somebody really paid to Estrada’s Mindanao fund, then it is up to them since Estrada has no control of that fund.
But why did you not complain that the only one who even admitted plunder, Chavit Singson who diverted tax money, is not charged? Since the Sandigan ruled that the money did not go to Estrada, and the reality check proved that is was not even possible, that money must then have remained with Singson but nobody claims it. And since it also proved that Singson lied to the court, why he is not charged? Is it a “thank you” for turning away from his friend Erap and putting him down? Stae witnesses are not free for anything they did and the more not free to lie to a court. Atong Ang has also received his “thank you” for turning against Estrada. It is remarkabele how fast former “incredible” witnesses become very credible if they testify in favor of the administration.
Lastly about Estrada’s pardon, he did not ask for it. But how, for example, is it possible that a convicted, to 203 years prison sentenced contractor get full pardon without to suffer just one minute in jail?
September 26th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
“Bravo to JDV? this is tantamount to saying “Bravo to Chavit S., “Brenda was absolutely correct whe she says, “Napatiktikan…..blah…blah blah…and so the saying goes..”galit ang magnanakaw sa kapwa”