PRODUCT OF THE SEEDY SIDE OF THE MEDIA WORLD

If we visit our dictionaries, we would find ordinary synonyms of the word, automatic.

However, I discovered it has other Meanings such as

inevitable, unavoidable, inescapable, unpreventable, necessary, ineluctable

certain, definite, undoubted, assured, obvious

mandatory, compulsory

There are many things in life that we wish would be automatically given to us without much sweat. For example, when we want to renew our passport, here in our country, I wish I could just mail it and then it would come back with its renewed contents.

When I want to ride a jeepney, I am very glad I belong to the senior citizens because, automatically, I am first in the queue much to the chagrin of the other passengers, especially the other elderlies who did not know that we are truly treated as a special class.

Or when I am doing animation, I wish I could just draw a bird from the right side of the computer screen and then it would slide down to the left with all the intervening drawings showing its flight. But no, under the two-d animation, I am supposed to draw every movement. The drawings will not automatically appear on the computer screen.

And say, when I am picking the coins for my paying the tricycle driver my fare, I wish the coins could be distinguished easily and I don't have to look for a lit area (in case it is nighttime) in order to be able to see if it is a five peso or a ten new coin. You see Folks, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas has a designer who is desensitized to the needs of the Filipino people. It has produced five and ten pesos coins with very similar looks. Hence, you really have to squint your eyes to detect the difference between the two. You cannot automatically pick one and say that is a five- or ten-peso coin.

So many instances I could cite for wanting that word "automatique" which is the French word for our subject, to be suddenly usable in our world.

But there is only one instance that I wish it would be applied already. It will have been two years since the IO of WH assumed powers. Now the cases of his two "colleagues" have arisen and they are both guilty, one of whom has pinpointed him as the recipient of the questionable pay-off to a porno queen.

How I wish the word "automatique" would readily be applied here. Automatically, let the doors of the Louisiana State Penitentiary open for the new occupant and let him savor the consequences of his having bastardized democratic principles.

Let him listen to all the classical music and view educational media materials.

I think that he has led a very raw life that is why he has descended to his level in that manner. He is a product of the seedy side of the media world. 

Prisoners Exercising, 1890 by Vincent Van Gogh