By: Iris P. Concepcion
"Look at me. I am super chubby but I am super confident."---from an unsung hero
I have seen a new facet of writing that has somehow warmed even the hottest of the heat-----this is the wave of the writing future.
I have read this via alternative information highway over the years; it had grained grounds in an almost telepathic printing. Despite the limitations and novelty and newness of the deliverance, they still landed on mainstream.
This is the battle of "real" work leaping out from print.
Not even a week into this new beginning, our senior citizens had been granted tax exemptions as health care support for them. They just need to avail them. Soon to follow are the utilities requirements of these often marginalized sectors of our society.
This had been foreseen by the book I had reviewed here: when these things prove to be very useful, this necessarily creates panic among those who prefer mess (it creates a fodder for money) than order.The illegal use of sirens even by civilian motorists had been reigned in and other welfare services are gaining headway.
This is truly an entrance into a wave of crucial social and political reforms that could give this country more leeway to institute things often laid stale in the backburner over the years.
Normally, we simply shut off the traditional gatekeepers to bullhorn what is actually being felt from down the line. Bringing it on top is tough but we had digitalized this information drive so well that it could capsize the status quo, albeit, positively.
What the heck, mainstream media is catching up finally. I experience goosebumps whenever I read words from the old geezers scribbling like idealist neophytes. Here is the novel twist: they are actually sharing their inputs on how to make things work instead of endlessly whining, bumping, shouting and fidgeting and picking on.
Of course, when there is a mistake, they too must bring it to the fore. I, nonetheless, welcome this group of skeptics figuring out how to process the information designs to more productive use, how to implement them, and how in the long run, see its practicality for what it truly is: it could be the better nation-building alternative for our country.
The potential of media as a force is often seen on the other side. Imagine then if the resource of this vast reservoir of knowledge is being funneled inside. It could create ripples of truly reinvigorating formulations of policies that keep pace with the speedy world of technology. This is the face of the new revolution. Something carved out from Jose Rizal's own transformative ways of being radical : while writing all those progressive ideas---he had likewise built and enforced his visions clearly, in that exiled place of his, Dapitan. He founded the best of what a country could achieve when what you are griping about is matched superior-wise, by workable social services.
That, in a nutshell, as pointed out succinctly in the book, is civic courage. No longer is valor confined to pointing out the wrong; true bravery also includes doing something concrete to correct the wrong.
I hope everyone catches up on this fever as started by those whose sense of freedom had been altered by a universe that could not be stopped from evolving and revolving to newer and grander heights.