ALL along, I thought the Covid-19 pandemic was World War III. So why is there talk again about another world war? Haven’t we had enough already?
There’s money in war — that’s why. Weapons of mass destruction make money move. There’s no money in peace unless it’s a peaceful revolution like the 1986 People Power Revolution, which required loads of moolah from both the Aquinos’ yellow and the Marcoses’ red-white-blue teams.
The yellow ribbons and military tanks had to be purchased — they didn’t materialize out of nowhere like miracles. The yellow confetti from the yellow pages of phone books were free, but they were given only to landline subscribers paying monthly fees.
The 1986 People Power Revolution was the result of a massive public relations campaign that began after Ninoy Aquino was assassinated on August 21, 1983. Only the most naive Pinoy would believe it was created out of spontaneity. The yellow ribbons were the major first step. The videos of Ninoy shown in university auditoriums were perhaps the second step.
Students at the time needed little motivation to hate then-President Ferdinand Marcos, PBBM’s father. They were already angry about martial law, which restricted their freedom. A midnight curfew? Hello? Arrests, detentions, torture, disappearances, extrajudicial killings — how Pinoys have been able to forget that is mind-boggling, especially when they voted for BBM in 2022.
The Aquinos went on to have two family members become president. First was Tita Cory in the 1986 snap presidential election, where the elder Marcos was officially declared the winner, which resulted in the People Power Revolution that kicked him and his family out of Malacañang. Second was her único hijo, Noynoy, a.k.a. PNoy, in 2010, after Tita Cory’s death awakened Filipinos’ love for the yellows.
Haven’t you noticed that the Aquinos’ rise to power is always preceded by a death in the family? The hope seems to be that the wife or son would be as effective as the husband and father, whose leadership Filipinos could only imagine after his assassination erased his possible presidency from the country’s future.
Kris, the youngest Aquino daughter, was expected to continue the family’s political legacy, but she has been dealing with autoimmune diseases that require medical treatment, including isolation. How can someone campaign while living like a monk? That would be a worst-case scenario for a political public relations team.
The low-carb community has been raring to help Kris in her predicament. What if all she needs for complete healing is the strictest lion diet, which consists of ruminant meat — beef, lamb, goat — plus salt and water? But she seems committed to relying on traditional medicine and doctors.
Besides, even low-carb dieters experience difficulty and face challenges in sticking to the diet. All the more so for Kris, who has probably immersed herself completely in the traditional way of healing illnesses.
I know some people who have fewer health woes to deal with compared to Kris, yet they’re already taking 13 kinds of maintenance medications. All these meds have their respective side effects, which would also require medication. It then becomes a never-ending story.
The low-carb dieter’s struggles are also a never-ending story. They are different paths and different healing processes, but they require the same courage and commitment.
Amid all these hopes for healing, there’s speculation about war. What the…?
