THE GLOBAL NORM OF BIGNESS AND SATE

Before, he was just an ordinary person like most of us. But as soon as he becomes a high profile public official, he jolted into an overnight millionaire. I had gone down every road you could think of, everyone that I’ve ever met that’s all they’ve been chasing, to become a public official. All the stories that I had followed in life were people who hold high profile position in our government either appointed or elected position went from nothing to living the life of millionaires.

In our country, the Philippines, being in the millionaires’ row is now the global norm of bigness and sate and it doesn’t matter if you got it in a dishonest way. What matters is when you are wealthy, you have the best opportunity/chance in life. You belong to a narrow segment of society who has all the entitlement of respect, privileges, and of being honorable; the Giants upon whose shoulders today’s intelligentsia stand.

Contrariwise, it has been a common practice that if you’re not enough or special and uniquely extravagant, your presence is looked down, not given enough attention and credit for what they know and our personal connection with them is so small.

Thus, everybody is enthralled and dyed-in-the-wool that it is a rat race in our corrupt Philippine government to become millionaires though hell should bar the way. You see, the pain we have in our society is not because there’s one right or one wrong approach. But because we try to make everybody fit into some particular approach to life. Most people are fooled by these people usually wearing a suit and tie.

But warn you, We should not hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. These are not the nice sweet people that you think. They are golden colored on the outside, but rotten inside. They are nothing but Liars, thieves, dope dealers, and mass murderers. They’re total killers living in the world of the make-believe.

Those engaged in corruption remember this; your children cannot walk away from getting their father’s horrible past thrown in their faces. It’s a lifetime sentence for them. They are doomed to continue the cycle of untrustworthiness that so many go by. It's really a shame, and the stigma is attached to the children who suffer the after effects by force of circumstances.