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Finally the MTRCB did something right and that is to suspend the utterly senseless show, “Pinoy Big Brother.” It would have been better to ban the show altogether, but a suspension would surmise for now.

In its justification to air the show, ABS-CBN stated that “‘Pinoy Big Brother’ represents a new, unprecedented expression of Filipino reality, a microcosm of human behavior that opens valuable studies and insights into social interaction, relationships and discipline.”

That’s BS as BS can be! “Pinoy Big Brother” caters to the voyeuristic tendencies of Filipinio viewers, period! The ‘Kapamilya’ station is committing incest once again with the Filipino viewing public. In their statement they try to use psycho-babble as if the intended viewers are psychology students. ABS-CBN’s advertisement to watch PBB in Skycable gives them away, however. They invite viewers to watch the show on cable instead where it is live 24/7 and UNCENSORED! (all caps mine). Why will they add the word, uncensored, if they have no intention to spice it up with sexual undertones?

There’s nothing redeemable from PBB, social or otherwise. But what can you expect from TV stations that compete for every tooth and nail of the viewing public? Look at the primetime fare. If you don’t get lachrymose-heavy Filipino soaps, you get lachrymose-heavy KOREAN soaps. So the next step in capturing precious patronage is the use of sex; but not blatantly. So ABS-CBN bright boys came up with PBB as a subtle medium.

PBB is a European concept, where moral values are almost non-existent. ABS-CBN would now like to bring Filipinos to that same doormat-level morality. All in the name of profit.

To ABS-CBN, if you’re not jaded yet, be ashamed; be very ashamed!

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Recently, Juan Ponce-Enrile, one of the denizens of the Martial Law era who should be in prison but is miraculously not and, in fact, even a senator, came out again with that ridiculous premise that the ouster of Presidents Marcos and Estrada was the work of the military and not People Power.

He claims it was the decision of the military to support People Power that finally caused Marcos and then later his disciple, Estrada, to step down from … nay, to flee … the Presidency.

Excuse me, Mang Johnny! The military had no choice but to support People Power. It was a spiritually powerful movement that could not be denied. Enrile, who tried to grab power several times through his lackeys like Gringo Honasan, knows nothing about spirituality. In fact, he cowered like a cornered rat with Fidel Ramos in Camp Crame precisely because his coup against Marcos was discovered.

And who saved him and his ragtag platoon? People Power! Who surrounded and protected them as they transferred from Camp Crame to Camp Aguinaldo? People Power! Who was forgiving enough so that Enrile, Ramos and Honasan were not thrown into prison but even went on to hold public office? People Power!

So this is the gratitude that Enrile has for his fellow Filipinos. He disregards the millions who trooped to the streets at the height of the two People Power uprisings, and instead focuses his myopic eye on the military and gives them the credit. This alone proves that Enrile is not the intelligent person that some sectors like to bandy about. He can only be best described by that Cebuano word, maro.

Perhaps Enrile can be forgiven somewhat if he made those statements in senility. Alas, it was stupidity and not senility that is accountable. As for Ramos he can be forgiven as his presidency brought back light, literally, to the Philippines.

Gringo Honasan? He should have stayed in hiding.

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I don’t know about you, but this is how I’m going to do it.

I’ll first go to the bathroom and take a long, lazy crap in memory of what the Marcoses did to the Philippines during their reign.

Then I’m going to get dressed to go to the church to inquire of God why none of the Marcoses nor the Estradas is in prison and, in fact, some are even in political office.

After this I’m going to find a cheap whore to spend the whole night with as a reminder of what politicians continue to do to the Filipino people in spite of the lessons learned.

What lessons learned?!!!

Porbida!

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Why do I write?

To begin to answer this question, I quote a radical named John the Baptist: “I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness…” (John 1:23).

But what a voice! It caused such a stirring that a king was forced to behead him. Was John the Baptist’s voice the voice of complaint? Was it the voice of self-righteousness? Was it the voice of boredom?

No doubt there was both criticism and praise for him during his time. What is essential is that he spoke up even if he felt his was just a voice from the wilderness.

And that is what writers do. We speak up! We do it in various ways, too: humorously, seriously, tongue-in-cheek, sarcastically, cryptically, just about anyway we can so long as we get our message across.

In doing so we reflect the joys, pains, frustrations, discouragements, aspirations, hopes, wonders and everything else in between of ordinary people; yes, even of those who comment by asking why we’re always complaining and not doing anything about it.

In writing, perhaps we can stir up others to do their part in expressing themselves (one way is to go out into the streets and protest). Hopefully, one voice becomes many voices. Then the many voices can bring about change.

Comment, if you will, on these articles. Just don’t lose your head going about it.

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