I wonder how a group of toxic people can tolerate each other. Perhaps they can tolerate each other because they’re all toxic? Boggles the mind.
Once they try to analyze why they have the blues, why they’re now feeling paranoid and insecure, do they even consider that the cause could be the group they belong to?
“Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are,” as the saying goes.
Strangers and acquaintances, however, are exempted from that saying since it doesn’t say, Tell me who your strangers and acquaintances are, and I’ll tell you who you are.
It’s expected that once you’re older, you’ve been there, done that with all kinds of groups. Unless you’re a loner. Or perhaps you became a loner a long time ago after realizing groups could be toxic.
Senator Imee Marcos’s are-you-drugs revelation about PBBM, the First Lady, and their sons is a bad example of how toxicity could affect people’s point of view (POV). And all that toxicity began with the controversy surrounding the flood control projects. Or perhaps it all began when BBM became PBBM. Or when Ferdinand Marcos Sr. became Pinas’s president in 1965.
Marcos Sr. did not exactly practice the pillars of good governance. His loss of control over Pinas started when Ninoy Aquino was assassinated on August 21, 1983 which resulted to more Mendiola protests that eventually led to the 1986 People Power. Sounds so simple now but it wasn’t. I grew up during his dictatorship and learned to keep quiet about the government.
The Marcoses fled to Hawaii, and the Pinoy expected the new president, Ninoy’s widow Tita Cory Aquino, to heal Pinas. But “the more things change, the more they stay the same” seems to be so true for Pinas, the Pinoy even voted for Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in 2022.
And here we are now, listening to the Marcos family’s POVs.
Toxicity never progresses to mental clarity. Too many sh*t happening at the same time can only produce diarrhea.
I don’t know, though, whose POV is more important here: Senator Imee’s great reveal or Anti Kler’s response to the great reveal.
In case you’re the Pinoy who has been living under a rock lately, Anti Kler or Auntie Claire is Clarissa “Claire” Castro-Seechung, the press officer and the undersecretary of the Presidential Communications Office. She’s not PBBM’s official spokesperson but has to behave like one in the absence of an official appointee. So, please don’t blame the as-if messenger.
Dealing with the Philippine government requires loads of patience. No wonder the Pinoy has to learn to be resilient. He’s paying taxes while watching videos of hearings on the alleged corruption in flood control projects. He’s on top of his roof during a supertyphoon, no thanks to floods caused by bald mountains, lack of an effective drainage system, and corrupted flood control projects.
And now that the Pinoy is trying to recover after the storm, here’s Senator Imee accusing her brother PBBM and his family of using drugs.
The Pinoy waits for the post-credits scene, expecting Anti Kler to say it was a simple case of misunderstanding, that PBBM and his family are actually taking vitamins and supplements only, the ones advertised on the radio as a cure-all for all kinds of illnesses and diseases.
