of dictators and stupidity

The Cold War Era back in the 70's and 80's was a time of turmoil and conflict in the country. The despised dictator ruling the Philippines, protected by alien interest as most 3rd world despots during those times were, wielded with iron hand against an unruly people, where civil disobedience was deemed fashionable as a way to combat the rise of his unholy powers and of his cronies, in the same manner that they deemed it fashionable to ape the culture of outside influences while trashing their very own.

But then, it seemed not everything he did was dictated straight from alien devils. The dictator sponsored the International Rice Research Institute that experts unanimously agreed had actually helped resolve the threat of worlwide food shortage during that time. Many countries actually benefited from it, and its headquarters still stood proudly in the ricefields of Laguna, Philippines. Except that, ironically, at this very moment, the host country itself is actually experiencing an acute rice crisis with blasphemous prices, courtesy of alien multi-national corporations with their sky-rocketing costs for chemical-laced fertilizer and pesticide products (for decades they managed to suppress and humiliate the advocates for organic farming over hybrid rice that rely heavily on their chemical products), criminal rice hoarders, and inept land conversion policies. And this is long after the dictator was kicked out of the country. Strange, Makes one wonder who the devils turned out to be.



The dictator, it turned out, also happened to have enough foresight over the rest of the hollywood-enthralled masses. He attempted to make a move to change the country's name from the glaringly obvious, colonial undertoned "Philippines" into the noble "Maharlika." With its invaluable benefit at inculcating nationalism and strengthening the psyche of an otherwise strife-torn country thanks to alien meddling, double-whammied with its own weakened identity, it was a move not just to empower himself, but the rest of his countrymen as well.

But, the people too embittered with hardships and atrocities committed against them courtesy of worlwide manipulation by alien interests like the CIA (you mean, up to now you still didn't get it ?!?!), immediately held him suspect, convincing it a ploy for selfish aggrandizement.



The most destructive damage done against the movement to rename the country came from a supoposedly Filipino academic "scholar". Re-echoed by a puppet corporate media (Time Magazine, 19 June 1989) to give weight to its "credibility" in the mindset of puppeteered hoardes, the supposed "scholar" convinced the gullible that Maharlika stemmed from the Sanskrit word maha lingam, which means "great phallus." Deeming it fashionable to disobey the alien supported dictator, the rest sucked up to it hook-line-and-sinker, no questions asked.

That was before the Internet Era. Research any Sanskrit dictionary search engines today and you will discover that Maharlika may have originated from the words Maha Lekha, in which Maha means "great, noble," and Lekha, meaning "work, creation, writing." Even the Tagalog language also incorporated it with "likha", which means 'create'.

The use of Internet had virtually exposed the "scholar" to be the usual crab-minded dork for the otherwise irreparable damage he had done, and the 'credibility' of that magazine should be held in question.

Ask anybody from what term Maharlika would come close into, whether maha lekha (great work, noble creation) or maha lingam (great phallus) and stupidity will unanimously choose the latter.

And the Philippines remained named up to this day, still brittle in its divisive state, lacking in national pride while the rest of its Asian neighbors race in stride with their much nourished cultural legacies (and Filipinos had the gall to wonder why).