IF THIS pandemic will not kill us, people will eventually learn to cope.
Adjust to the new normal.
Reinvent life, and the world, as we know it.
But while they are dying a little, while we are not yet fully recovered from this pandemic, I just want to be there for them as I am with you, my dear newspaper readers, all through this time.
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Social media is pretty good in connecting people during this pandemic.
But socmed can also be toxic.
So many false information, fake news, conspiracy theories.
It makes me sad that people do not fact check.
Or that they rather choose to believe their illusions and theories.
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Praying about this, I feel more the responsibility of keeping tradition.
Of calling out certain stupidities.
Especially those perpetuated by the generation that does not know what it is doing.
It does make me feel old, but also privileged to know what it was like in the past century.
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Sadly, the young people of today are so detached from reality.
Well, obviously, they are drowned in their virtual reality.
They think that their Internet choices make them so smart.
And they tend to look down on their parents and the generations before them because these older people do not know the young’s stupidized and idiotized language.
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These young people want to normalize misspelling, sluttism, sex work (it’s just their term for prostitution), and all other stupidities.
Why?
Because they can’t spell correctly.
Because they’re sluts.
Because they’re sluts, and want to cash in on it.
Because they’re stupid.
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Well, the adults either don’t care, or don’t have the time for them.
Don’t have patience for their stupidity.
So the sluts and stupids and illiterates proliferate in social media.
And the sluts and stupids and illiterates find safety in number.
So they grow. Sometimes, overtaking reason, decency, and intelligence.
I’m just happy to watch all these things.
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I mean, I sometimes engage them.
Thus, my online notoriety for burning them sluts, stupids, and illiterates.
But that’s only because I have time in my hand.
I spend a couple of hours on Facebook every day triggering them, getting their attention, pointing out their limited perspectives.
They argue with me, but I don’t let them win.
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And those who don’t frequent socmed, those who judge me from my individual posts just think that I’m a psycho bitch.
But here’s my take: Someone has to be a voice of reason.
Maybe a voice wiser with knowledge of the past.
Knowledge of science, arts, philosophy, history, psychology, antiquity, and modernity.
If 1,000 young people in the Philippines believe in zombie apocalypse, isn’t that a bad sign for our future?
If 10,000 young people in the Philippines believe that Wattpad is the pinnacle of literature, isn’t that alarming for our future?
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If 5,000 adults in the Philippines believe that the COVID vaccine was created to kill us, to where are we heading?
If 50,000 adults who are not even offered the vaccine refuse it, and they refuse it only to make a(n empty) political stand, do we still have a future?
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I never really thought people are stupid in very massive scales.
I mean, I’ve met a few stupid people throughout my life.
Okay, maybe I’ve seen more, but I was rather forgiving and less judgmental.
In the past, I wasn’t quick to call people stupid.
But throughout this pandemic, I just saw stupidity after stupidity after stupidity.
To be honest, I felt that I lost some hope in humanity.
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But I have an innate faith in people.
I trust in the original goodness of people.
I know, because I am naturally good.
I mean, if I show some wickedness, it is only because it is also my human nature to survive.
To defy stifling conventions, and to challenge hypocritical morals.
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I also believe that people can be taught.
Can be saved from ignorance.
Can be saved from their own delusions. (To be continued/PN)
