Yen Makabenta, on the new social cancer: The cancer is so advanced, that we can see it, smell it, feel it. All around us, large sections of the nation’s physical, political, and ethical infrastructure are sagging or crumbling down. From Malacañang to Congress, from corporate boardrooms to our streets, from schools and churches, from mass media to entertainment, there is a pervasive breakdown of order and values. The Lipa declaration of religious and civic leaders last August 27 captured the mood of the times when it said: “A crisis of unprecedented proportions has befallen our nation. The life of the nation is in grave peril from the very political forces that are primarily ordained to protect, promote and advance its well-being, but which are aggressively undermining its moral, religious, social, cultural, constitutional, and legal foundations.” The situation is demoralizing because government is not fulfilling its very reason for being —to provide collective goods that individuals alone cannot produce—such as infrastructure like highways, airports and ports, public utilities and basic services, promoting peace and order and ensuring national security, providing social services such as the public school and public health systems, and managing the economy to promote high employment, foster economic growth, and thereby improve incomes and living standards. manilatimes.net/new-social-cancer-ethical/127450/
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 03:03:28 +0000
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