I see… That one above there is an example of a person who just can’t accept the truth.

This is exactly reason why anti- pinoy is here. To enlighten the people of what WE pinoys have become.

Blaming and pointing a finger on someone will not work, because the truth is, it was ALSO OUR FAULT!

We contributed on that certain phenomena. Like uhmn… I don’t know… TRASH?! NEGLECT?! STUPIDITY?!

If you think nothing is happening then work on something and do it yourself.

Its appalling, because after that certain tragedy… WE are all back again on the same track… Manila is still dirty and other parts of the country as well.

And to realize that WE used that just so WE can boast to other countries what we can do in times of tragedy? Can we not keep it to ourselves? What’s happening now? Are we still that helpful? Charitable?

Its also the people who’s the problem here! MAJOR actually. WE need to be able to grow. WE need to REALLY LEARN OUR LESSONS.

I think that you are being judgmental rather than reflective of facts.
I don’t think that the problems you presented here are the real problems
which shoul be tackled because Filipinos, admit it or not, are strong people.
Mas bibilib pa siguro ako sayo kung tinira mo si Gloria at ang administrasyon
ngayon kung bakit walang malakihang paghahanda sa mga disasters na sinasabi mo.

Culture of impunity is practiced by idiot peryodistas.

Thanks guys.

@ Stefan Suarez:
Perhaps not seeing “less action” but seeing more of the “right action”; i.e., action that anticipates rather than simply reacts. If, for example, much of the energy was directed towards putting in and maintaining routine measures that helped mitigate the risk of such disasters to begin with, we’d be seeing a bit less destruction and waste today.

@ Filipino culture
That’s right. “Hope” should be substantiated. A hope of one day becoming a lawyer needs to be substantiated by a plan to study Law in a university. In the same way it is a ludicrous proposition to be encouraging people to have “hope” without any evidence of a clear roadmap to achieving whatever it is one hopes for will happen in the future.

Great blog post. I’d like to focus on the point behind “hope in what, exactly?”. Hope needs a clear plan of action and actual action to produce tangible results. Unfortunately, many people just stop at having hope. Hope in of itself, without the requisite action and planning, leads nowhere. It is like a can of gasoline. It has the potential to create movement but if it isn’t poured into a properly configured engine and without the willpower to turn on the ignition switch, it remains mere potential.

HOPE, in this proper context, still produces personal advancement in the Philippines: http://www.dailyrandomsites.com/is-there-hope-for-filipinos-in-the-philippines/