THIRD WORLD , A FOOTNOTE.

Poverty. Its prevalence. It , connoted to be the main word to reckon with when the label THIRD WORLD is stuck upon a country's forehead.  It , without having to bat an eyelash flood our thoughts with the dire lack of material needs to feed the best of races and fly high into a plane where abundance lurks.  But on a hundredth thought, Poverty may simply be a manifestation of IGNORANCE.  A blatant syndrome that of which several cranial functions are left unattended to perhaps augment other mortal values of those who call the shots.  If we look around and identify the essence of ignorance, we may simply be amazed with how seemingly happy they are not to know a lot things to propel progress through communal struggle.  We all are ignorant at some point of our lives, but somehow experience may just play roles never imagined to exist.

Asia is one continent where third worlds abound.  But then, there is only history to blame.  Colonizers  simply did not consider the natives they enslaved as human beings.  The poor half-naked baked-skinned were monkeys in their perspective view of matters and facts.  The islands they called Philippines became an addiction to their greed and as they sold a new religious product their hunger grew fatal.  Three hundred years is a damn insane number of time to relentlessly transform a once idyllic paradise into a political entity to boost their motherland's coffers.  As the prayle band started to satiate the flesh by copulating their slaves; little did they know that soon enough ; them bastards will rebel against the foreign rule and commit  large scale parricide.  Of course , we all know that.  This is just a graphic detail of the whole picture.

With the revolution against Spain, new colonizers tried their luck too.  We were sitting ducks and susceptible to any enticing offer from nowhere.  With the blood of the natives saturated and infected with a rare case of ignorance.  Ignorance of real patriotism.  Nobody again is to blame, but history,

In the film HENERAL LUNA, they sold it with a solid phrase by the man behind the title : ANG ATING MGA KAAWAY AY ANG ATING MGA SARILI, or something like that in context.  He was slaughtered because of his ignorance that our worst and corrupted enemy is our HISTORY.  Had he screamed "ANG ATING MATINDING KALABAN AY ANG ATING NAKARAAN" , he should have died from old age or syphilis.  It is but insane to mutate the enemy to be our selves.  It is a but a refreshing take of the real essence of our national insanity. TOUCHE.