WHEN MUSIC BECOMES A GOOD OUTLET

Summer is here and yet there are talks of typhoons coming our way. Well we have also political typhoons coming in deluge -- unfinished typhoon, the DAP-NAPOLES, Mamasapano incident, rising tuition fees, high and low oil prices, transportation fares that never come down despite the low oil prices, continuing traffic everywhere. Yet some people have the gall to declare that they will run for office come 2016. 

Are some of our people really that insensitive to the people's pulse? Does politics really make people insensitive?

I think that being in a political position can really desensitize people no end because there are always temptations, right and left, front and back for them to feel grand, to feel in command, to feel authoritative despite the brickbats that are being thrown at them through social media, the radio and teleradyo media, and of course the print media. Never have we known the vibrancy of the media until now. We marvel at how open our people are at expressing their feelings, how the media practitioners are feeling so het up about the lack of obedience to ethical standards of living and exercising political functions. 

Maybe we should have tarpaulins announcing: 'NO TO DAP"   or "RETURN NINAKAW" and not only "HUWAG KANG MAGNAKAW."  "GIVE GLORY TO MAMASAPANO SOLDIERS AND FAMILIES" and "RESIGN TRAFFIC MANIPULATORS" and many more. 

I think really what is lacking is a constant reminder to these people that we are in need of GREAT CHANGES in our country -- not paper changes. We are tired of hearing blaming and throwing the blame. We need action to erase, to solve, and to bring to the end all our problems. 

Are we dreaming or having a nightmare. Try music, a very good outlet