The Philippines is a country rich in resources both manpower: skilled, and unskilled, as well as in natural resources. Seasoned politicians are highly intelligent, leaving universities with high honours while majority of the citizens are hard-working and determined to uplift their lives. A picture of a likely rich and progressive country.
However, nothing can be farther from the truth. As the world already knows, a great majority of its citizens are in poverty, most of the so-called middle class cannot even afford to buy their own houses.
Jobs are scarce and the population growth has run amok, there are currently over 100 million Filipinos today in a total land mass of 300,000 square kilometres. Overcrowded much?
So what has gone wrong? From second to Japan to down the drain and still going. Could this simply be the fate of this country? Forsaken? Majority of its people cursed to live and die in poverty if i may say?
Ah! But this cannot be by chance alone.
So lets study the two main strata of the Philippine society and the mechanism employed to maintain the status quo. So you will then see why majority of Filipinos are poor.
The Farm is the country itself where you have two kinds of people in it.
1. The Ruling Class: Farmers.
Their names are synonymous with fame, wealth and power. They have always been there for decades if not hundreds of years. They are politicians, businessmen, media moguls, titans of commerce. They are deadly, cunning, manipulative, the embodiment of Evil of biblical proportions of what the apostle Paul calls as 'in the Flesh'.
1a. The Upper Middle Class only exist by toleration of the farmers. Either due to their own talent in managing their finance and trade, or through friendship, acquaintance, or distant blood ties with the high and mighty. These are used as tools by the royalty as farm wardens.
* The Mechanisms Employed.
a. Media/Entertainment - The Farmers have very strong influence over, have connections, if not direct control of powerful and influential Media outlets i.e. ABS-CBN. The other media outfits are no better as they are tied to the same masters. Recycling the same old storyline of glorifying the unattainable lives and even 'looks' of the rich and famous. These are Pumped into the hapless cerebra of the masses day in and day out. Banal TV programmes and soaps are beamed onto the eyeballs of the citizens with sublime messages of the regular pinoy as being ugly, stupid, and worthless. Locally made films simply rehash the same tired narrative with great effect. That is of scarring the Filipino psyche, the damage may probably last forever.
b. Religion - with a number of the politicians and business moguls having genetic links to the ere Spanish Empire and Friars of the ancient days, they have this Church telling the people to breed like rabbits so to obtain massive numbers of zombie brained voters to harvest for their self-serving objectives. And so the the hive of the gullible exponentially increase.
c. Education - with chronic poverty restricting entry to better private schools, purposely overcrowded classrooms in state funded primary and secondary schools is hardly conducive for learning, hence many of the youth are distracted and ultimately drop out leaving them under-educated and this is 'good for business' because they become quite easy targets for predation by the upper class in their adult age.
d. Lawlessness and DisOrder: squatting is illegal in the Philippines but is being perpetrated or 'condoned' by the overlord ruling class and their underling farm wardens to secure massive numbers of voters in their constituency. The deprived masses are Continually baited with Promises of better lives every election season.
e. Employment - scarce, but Not by accident. Massive numbers of Filipinos are driven to work overseas to find work. Educated ones mostly, probably to reduce the risk of having competition in their own turf. The under-educated exodus appears to be incidental but not at all without benefits for the upper class as you will see below.
f. Commerce - gargantuan enthralling malls, private hopitals, and private educational insitutions are everywhere in major cities of the republic. You'd wonder where are they getting the customers from when majority of the people are unable to afford?
2. The Underclass: The Cattle.
Ah yes. From the cash sent home by the overseas Filipino workers to their relatives. These concrete monstrosities aka Malls and the like are but funnels of hard earned money by people in Exodus long deprived of proper education, health services, and were intentionally made poor and driven away to serve as slaves in other countries by the upper class who remain worshipped, envied, looked up to by the animals of the this farm even to this very day.
The end justifies the means -》 for the ultra Rich in Pilipinas. Capitalism at its best. The Philippines as its poster boy on a micro level.
Greed Works!
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