Designer’s Dilemma

I googled the name Jun Lozada and guess what i found in the number one spot, a blog from pinoypress.net with the title being “Jun Lozada, a Filipino Hero”. Honestly now, why would we even consider aligning a Jun Lozada, or a Manny Pacquiao and a Ninoy Aquino - no offense to the Aquino family, for that matter, with Filipino heroes?

Is our current list of heroes not enough? Or maybe we simply need that much encouragement just to get through our daily lives because of all the sufferings we go through on a day to day basis…

Image Courtesy of ABS-CBN news

I really don’t know the answer to that question, the question which asks: “Why do we place on a pedestal, anyone who gives the Filipino people a single voice?”, even if just for the shortest period of time… Or maybe the answer is within the same question, that we, the Filipino people, simply want to be united.

As far as I can remember from our history classes back when I was still in grade school, NOT THAT I REALLY WANTED TO LISTEN , Filipinos have always been divided, which is why we were easily conquered by Spain in the first place - picking us off one province at a time. Up until this day, we don’t have one voice, one driving force, or even one goal that everybody has in common. Probably why each and every time someone steps up and gives the Philippines, or at least majority of its people, a reason to stand as one, we instantly declare him/her a hero - when the problem to begin with lies with our own selves. The problem to begin with is that we are all too selfish. We all have our own little selfish reasons to act independently of one another. We all have our motives and selfish plans. Which is why every time anyone is elected nothing really changes, because no one really wants to change anything, we all are just waiting for that next “hero” image to arrive and unite us for a moment insinuating change to the people, the government, or whatever we need the change for, in a short and brief moment, until that moment is gone and everything else falls apart once again.

It’s a bit frustrating how we tend to execute things, and how very complex we tend to mask our problems, even though at times we know how simple the answers can be - it’s just that we don’t really want to cooperate that we end up pointing fingers at each other; and as sad as I am to say it, other countries have been taking advantage of the fact that we are divided for centuries.

But that’s just a crazy graphic designer’s point of view who am I to say anything worthwhile, right?!?

Filed under: Politics on March 11th, 2008