I used to believe authenticity could be achieved solely by describing, in our own words, one's own fragment of experience. This was of course predicated on the complete intellectual and aesthetic independence of the "I". One eventually realizes such intellectual isolationism promotes style, ego, awards. But not change.
Miguel SyjucoIf our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.
Miguel SyjucoTag: fear loneliness
Cliches remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that other have trod this ground long ago.
Miguel SyjucoHe fidgets. Thinks. Observes his fellow passengers. Judges everyone, in the traditional Filipino sport of justifying both personal and shared insecurities.
Miguel SyjucoTag: insecurity filipino
The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago
Miguel SyjucoTag: humanity tyranny slavery revolutions
We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them.
Miguel SyjucoVilification, by its definition, creates an antagonistic struggle, an us-versus-them mentality, that throws us all into a senseless battle-royale
Miguel SyjucoTag: antagonism
...just because an ideology dies doesn't mean the value of its ideas is nullified
Miguel SyjucoTag: ideology
...when you hate someone so much, a part of you wants desperately to forgive them. But you can't decide if it's because you really want, or if you just want to stop hating. I still don't know if forgiveness is generous or selfish. Maybe both.
Miguel SyjucoTag: forgiveness
Because falling, if you live in the moment,is really just flying, at least until you read the ground
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