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When we listen to a song, we hear the melody which sounds so good but the lyrics are off, meaning to say, the melody -- the form is nice, but the sense of the lyrics, the substance or the message of the composer/and or singer is not significant at all. This is a case of form versus substance.
Say, when we look at a painting and find it beautiful -- the colors, the shapes, the fine techniques of the painter, we say hurrah. It is an obra maestra. But when we stare longer, we see that it is pornographic or has a message of death. Then we now know that we have been misled by the form -- the real message is not really healthy for our mind, our emotions and our spirit.
Then we also say, "Maporma yang taong yan." What do we really mean? "Ma-porma" means being artificial. Veneer only and deep inside, the individual is full of "kaplastikan."
In much the same way when we look at politics -- we see, hear and encounter politicians who are all air and stand-offish, but they are not really saying anything meaningful to the people; they are not sensitive to the people's needs for meaningful reforms, meaningful investigation of corruption.
What then do we do? We just trust our intuition; open our third eye and say, "God let me discern who the real leaders are of this country. Let me be able to distinguish between form and substance. Amen."
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