What this country needs is our insatiable thirst for patrimony. The thing with the radicalism, dynamism and activism of UP is something we all need to arrive at solutions to the ills of society.
I believe it is something that must be replicated in any university or college or school to remind ourselves of our duty to our God and country and to send the chilling reminder to government that we the people, is the government and the state.
Now, is love an invention or a discovery and in this context, i have discovered it in my many interactions with UP. It is in the way we see love for the nation that divest us of greed and the slavery of thought!
As I see society today and I pondered deeply: we are a society enslaved in ideas and thoughts. Gone are the exercise of our voices and the dynamism that goes with it. Gone are the waves of popular dissent that tells us our democracy is alive. We are in decayed slumber, wide awake yet immobilized out of fear and comfort which is a distinct contrast.
As I take a shower today, I felt the heated water on my back, releasing the tension and stress yet I have concluded that our society now is one without a heart. We rationalize events with imprecise interpretations yet we never felt how freedom drumbeats the heart. We have lost touch of an era where fervor and activism gets results, that in the exercise of people power, we instigate a personal revolution: a change in ourselves.
We must never forget how in years passed, our society is full of heroism by ordinary men and women; that in their patrimony, there was a liberation of sort. However, today, we have undefined liberation. We liberate ourselves from the clutches of poverty then but we are still in its quagmire nonetheless. We see how people’s greed rise to a callous disparity, never tempered.
What we need, is patrimony and the love for it.
