22/11/2025
After reading the comments and rants in this post, allow me to offer a straightforward reflection. Let us stop pretending to be surprised or offended. This is the reality of our system. When someone sits in the position of influence, every rule, every policy becomes flexible—bendable, adjustable, and, when convenient, completely replaceable. Even the most effective structures are quietly undermined, irritated, weakened, and eventually discredited, all to make space for allies who pose no threat and will follow whatever direction is given.
What is even more troubling is that the replacements often deliver barely half the value of the people they removed. Yet we continue to wonder why our nation finds itself in this cycle, especially under the leadership of those who claim to serve us. This has long been the prevailing culture, passed down through generations.
When they do something, it is always justified—acceptable, even admirable. But when you deliver beyond what is expected, when you exceed their output, when you accomplish alone what they can only achieve as a group, suddenly it becomes wrong, flawed, or insufficient in their eyes. Their silence in their own shortcomings is loud, and their criticism of others is even louder.
So should we still expect fairness from those in power, when this behavior has become normalized—learned, inherited, and engrained in nearly every Filipino who grew up witnessing it? Some never matured beyond it, while others grew older without ever outgrowing the mindset.
This is the cycle we live in. And unless it is recognized for what it truly is, nothing will change.
