Tuesday, March 11, 2008

PROTEST @ 100 ( Jan. 2008 ):



I'm very much aware that this wasn't a particularly sanctioned activity by the evil UP Administration, but since I have just begun in here, might as well go straight for the jugular. The protest action was, indeed, an impromptu, a trickle of the moment, and quite a spur. But at least it was an expression of disgust. Good stuff and a significant omen of things that which was to come. Shall we ?

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The first days I got spurned out back to the damn scholastic beat, I got into bussiness early. Not that this was much of a something. I HAVE been on the internet. That method of social awareness can be but hampered by the DSL, which like anger, is quite a gift. Some outdoors afterwards from here was just about nice.

Moral irregularities grabbed my attention, going to class. Not that such a thing is quite a ' jump the shark ' like it used to, given these laughably institutionalized apathetic times of late ( the great philosophers of yore should have probably been spitting on us from their graves now ). But this one is just, shall we say, ' the Peak ' of it; like, you stumble across a terrible snag like this, you can never turn your eyes away. just. Something that have to do with Spiderman, a superhero, beloved by kids, making a deal with the Devil, with Evil itself in the comics, and the Marvel company condoning that . Literally. The Editor - In - Chief, was in fact the one who commited the dismal thing on paper; as the ' artist ' he alleges himself to be. Specific score was this : the poor loser was recently gloating about in a painful personal crisis. His infamous Aunt May apparently got shot by a hired gun after he pissed all over the government for a reason. Now she is lying critically near dead, pitilessly so in the CPU plug. Whipping-lad face couldn't deal with the happenings rather well. So, in a pathetically contrived fashion, a petite , chirpy young lass suddenly came prancing by . She is, in fact, Mephisto, the Lord Demon himself; reverting back to his corporeal form quick to get the hamfisted point across. The iconic bastard then puts him in a wringer with an ultimatum : namely, he will grant him his Aunt back well and good, in exchange, of all things, for his marriage. Meaning it shall never exist in any reality . Peter Parker ( aka. him ) was married to caring, bombastically beautiful Mary Jane at the time. He agrees to it. Yep, awful.

The Editor-In-Chief even got the gall to later defend this ' character development ' in the media. He couldn't make the realistic superhero go through a ' divorce ' or an ' annulment ' ? That would certainly piss off the parents. Divorce, and/or annulment, after all immoral things, & it may just upset kiddie minds. Making him deal with a living symbol of evil in their book - and a recognized one at that, by them no less - solves that problem. America being America, namely the WORLD, this just pretty much says a lot about the predominant moral mindset nowadays, doesn't it : actions would not be bad or wrong because of their inherent nature, taken from a vacuum, but on principle of sanction . It is thus perfectly okay to shake hands with Satan itself to protect preestablished morals - & whoever it preferred first. Something that our hypocritical local prelates ( I call then Padre Damaso, then split their heads in halves ), have been up with of late : sealing the country's eminent destruction at the hands of a Falangist few because it puts their doctrine in charge. Like that neo-liberal cabal of the premier state university messing with us of late .....


I was further talking about these things with a few people in a CAl org tambayan, when a few fellow tibaks people arrived. A symbolic protest gesture by STAND-UP is about to be performed at the Sunken Garden in a few hours; preempting the Jan. 8 Centennial celebrations kick-off . This is , of course against the increased commercialization of education and that goddamned helipad ! Might as well.

What we have done was more or less people etching a veritable ' 100 ' across the storied grassy knoll with their prescience, flashing signs of anger and stance against state abandonment held up in printed pieces of bond paper.

It was fine, in fact. There are no ' dealings with the devil ' here.



















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