More specifically, let’s talk about power at its dirtiest: when it abdicates due process for ulterior motives[1]; when it threatens you at the slightest – but vague – provocation; when it lashes out with all the angst of a fifteen year-old instead of using logic or sincerity in order to rectify a mistake; when it pulls other people down in order to justify its own beliefs, via an article that reads like it’s more concerned with university competition than the actual state of the poor[2].
Let’s talk about corruption as an open secret; let’s talk about celebrity and politics; let’s talk about how elections, no matter how rigged, are rooted in ideology – one that reinforces the power of the state, so that the winner is the winner is the winner, no matter what; let’s talk about the convenience of forgetting, and the cheap luxury of saying we remember, without any action.
Let us talk about these things, and then let us listen to the deadly (no pun intended) silence that ensues.
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[1] See also here.
[2] Because seriously, this is no time for intimations of competition, UAAP-wise or no.
And an aside: while we’re at it, let’s be clear that cybersex, hacking, cyber-squatting, forgery, and fraud, ought to be illegal. The libel clause, however, is another matter altogether.
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It’s a wonder what people can talk about during a one-hour lunch break; and how all else, it is a double-edged sword.
Writing Like a Hell Kitten 