A Wishy Washy Democracy

I also haven’t noticed how the Philippines is about to oust another President, the same one we put in power when we ousted the last one.

What a wishy-washy democracy. In this country, everyone has something to say (former Presidents, the urban poor, the businessmen, the military, the actors, the press, the priests, the universities, the administration, the opposition, the elite) and everyone’s opinion is right. It results not in a plurality of meaning, but everyone having their own fixed meaning, a truth of their own. Unfortunately, nothing ever makes sense.

And when everyone says a different kind of truth, everyone’s lying. We are all fools fooling the foolish. We are a country of liars, an attribute particularly true about the heads of our state.

So I'll add my own incoherence to my country's lies.

I remember reading a short story by an Italian author. In the story, the law decreed that the President be beheaded after serving his/her term. Knowing their inexorable fate makes them accountable for what they do, automatically heroic - or maybe in some cases automatically criminal. More importantly it makes them selfless.

We should do that: beheading presidents. It would save us the trouble of ousting them.