January 2009
We Each Have a Post to Man
January 26, 2009 by Niña Terol-Zialcita · Leave a Comment
The most interesting emails that I’ve gotten lately are from friends who don’t usually participate in political or social discussions in our respective egroups, but who pipe in once in a while—and quite passionately—about where they’re coming from as young professionals trying to build careers and families.
“I am not being apathetic, but my priority now is to establish myself and provide for myself and my family.”
“My role in society is to run my business well, provide opportunities for growth for my employees, and make sure that everyone is paid well and on time so that they, in turn, can provide for their families.”
“I work hard, obey the law, and pay taxes. I think I’m doing my fair share already.”
7 Resolutions You Can Do for RP While Sitting Down
January 12, 2009 by Niña Terol-Zialcita · Leave a Comment
Whether you’re an office worker glued to your desk for most of the week, a Net junkie who loves blogs and social networking sites, an overseas Filipino looking to connect back to home, or simply someone with something to say, the power to set this country right is within your reach.
In these times of social unrest, when media focus hops from one controversy and “crisis” to another, Filipinos everywhere are saying, “I don’t want to condone these actions, but I don’t know how I can help.” They resign themselves to the fact that corruption exists everywhere, that their well-intentioned actions may not amount to anything, and that it’s perhaps best to leave political action to the politicians. After all, they would reason out, politics is dirty business.
But it wasn’t meant to be that way. In his 350 B.C. work, Politics, the Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote: “Every state is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good; for mankind always act in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good [italics mine].”
