Unkind judgment of history

Unkind judgment of history

All things considered, Manny Pacquiao is now a living legend in boxing. That is how our history will remember Pacquiao as the country’s greatest boxer.

I wonder if our present crop of leaders will also receive similar kind thoughts from our historians. I say this because I am sure they are also interested to know how history will judge them. Historians have the perspective of judging whether or not history will be kind to our present leaders. They are entrusted with the sacred task of creating opinions about our leaders. Probably these leaders can purchase their space in history or ask the historians to re-filter their stories about them and make them appear good and heroic. What a shame.

Our country is a mess. Only the naïve believes that our leaders are not to be blamed for this. There is no denying that the government is drenched with many anomalies and lies and most of them are authored by our leaders. One reason for this is their misplaced loyalty. They give blind loyalty to their party leader but not to the people who elected them into office. Moreover, these leaders don’t even make apologies when they mesmerize their leader with their dutiful and even deferential affirmation to what their leader wishes deliberately not wanting to hurt their leader’s ego. As a result, they reduce themselves to buffoons nourishing the inflated ego of their leader or they act like robots incapable of rational thoughts and with no sense of responsibility. It’s a funny thing that we keep on electing these leaders to public office even when we know that they are swindling us. We easily get amused by the leaders’ phony, uncultivated ways and uncaring attitude. It is very unfortunate that things have not dramatically changed after EDSA 1. Lessons we learned from EDSA 1 appear to be in trash bins of our collective memory. Are we getting dumber and dumber?

After the victory of Pacquiao, who is sure to have a good space in our history, it is now the propitious moment for our leaders to sincerely ask themselves whether they too like Pacquiao wish to be remembered kindly by history. But I guess with all their cheap ploys, their misplaced loyalty, political antics, and suspicious schemes history will be unkind to them.