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Monday, July 11, 2005
Cuizon: Do things just seem to be?
By Erma Cuizon
Bird by Bird
HAVEN’T you noticed that the country (in the hands of Manila in Congress and Malacañang) has been moving by perception in the past few days? This is because truth has not been found. The situation here and there is an “interpretation of sensory stimuli.”
No wonder the man in the street doesn’t know what to think, what real decisions to make. In perception, you see, it’s not really what things are but how things appear, which is what things are made to show, in the guise of truth.
Perception in some cases change all over the place, as much as you change TV channels to watch the latest on Gloriagate.
The truth is, when I do a column on burning issues these days (which isn’t often), I don’t know what or when or how anything could next hit me.
Some people in the administration and leaders of the church cannot accept GMA at this time because of the perception (whether correct or not, proven or not) that she cheated in the elections because she talked to a Comelec official at the wrong time. These people don’t want to be identified with cheating, yes, how would people perceive it?
Whether GMA really cheated or not, that she cheated is the perception, so she must come down from the pedestal (or hasn’t she done it already, in a sense?).
As one reaction to this, there’s a general perception that Manilans in Congress are running the show. So, the provinces would secede from the republic if things didn’t go the way they want. A friend says, anyway, there already is a Malacañang in the South.
But the truth is that the seat of government does have the advantage of strength and voice anywhere whether you like it or not. Or else, why don’t we have 10 Malacañangs throughout the archipelago, to please everyone?
And the truth is, not very few of the noisiest and most cantankerous congressmen lording it over at the Congressional hall in Manila come from the south.
But the perception is…. Let everyone jump into (or out of) the wagon on a perception.
There also appears to be a perception that the country will collapse without GM, the business sector thinks so. International business will move out and Filipinos will be like a starving island unto itself, goes another perception.
But militants perceive the business sector as only after profit.
One side is saying GMA as cheater is a perception. But it becomes difficult to take her side because she’s suspected to be a cheater, whether she is or she is not, and we’re not cheaters, are we?
If you feel I’m not going anywhere in this talk, you’re right. That’s the way it is when you play around with perception, haven’t you noticed?
(emc@sunstar.com.ph)
(July 11, 2005 issue)
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