Come on let’s all wake up from our delusions of greatness. There’s no need for us to get all riled up over Carolla’s statements, which are quite accurate actually. The best thing for us to do is to reflect on what’s been said, identify the problem and come up with a way to correct what’s causing outsiders to have a negative perception of us.

Out of curiosity, I visited Carolla’s Facebook page. As I expected, there I found a steady barrage of attacks from Pinoys who don’t get it. These people are just making it much worse. Obviously, they don’t realize that by ganging up on Carolla they’re just validating the comedian’s statement. Di ba kayo nahihiya sa pinaggagagawa ninyo?

These anti-Carolla emo-Pinoys probably think the same as those superficial Pinoys who think and feel so patriotic every time they wear the national colors and/or that ubiquitous Philippine map shirt logo, or worse, that yellow (God, help this country!) ribbon. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out later that many of these people actually belong to the same clique.

God, please help this country!

Stupid, stupid, stupid! How can we evolve if we can’t even accept criticism, especially one that has some truth to it? And, to think Filipinos in general are also just as guilty of discriminatory behavior.

I’m a Filipino and I know I love my country. However, I do not feel compelled to engage in superficial acts of “patriotism.” For one, I maintain a firm grasp of reality and as such will never ever believe emo-crap like “where I come from everyone’s a hero” or that Filipinos have a monopoly of bayanihan. Neither do I feel the need to go fashionista with any sense of patriotism I have.

Yikes! I’m getting all indignant over this stupid anti-Carolla indignation. I better stop now. Anyway, for your enlightenment please read this interesting piece from a fellow Filipino and this one from an American who probably has more genuine concern for this country than the typical sakay-sa-uso Pinoy.

Now, that’s quite interesting, isn’t it? The lack of widespread display of indignation. Makes you wonder what happened to the “always-indignant-over-something” crowd.

Many months ago this particular class of netizens jumped on the bandwagon we’ve all come to know as the Pangandaman-De La Paz Brawl. Inspired to action by a one-sided account from the daughter of the supposed victim, these people inundated cyberspace with their expressions of righteous anger aimed at the “guilty” party. Of course, we now know how that whole controversy unfolded. It turned out the “aggrieved” party did not exactly go to the online court of public opinion with clean hands.

There have been other instances where these netizens found it necessary to show everyone the power of their indignation. Two of the most talked about that I can remember are the Nation of Servants brouhaha and the most recent, the case of the undistributed relief goods.

I suppose the stark contrast between the volume and speed of delivery of reactions to the relatively minor events stated above and the Maguindanao Massacre is what prompted one particular netizen to leave the following admonition and similarly worded comments on various blogs.

For pity’s sake, the worst Philippine tragedy in my lifetime, worst than Garci, Ondoy, the “accidental” killing in Paranaque, etc has just happened. You’re talking about other things? People in Mindanao who believe that unarmed women and journalists are fair game for their grisly hobbies, and just as bad, the completely inappropriate slow reaction by government when they should’ve left no room for doubt that they would act. This happened in your country, to your own people. Just because they don’t read Twilight or watch Conan O’Brien, you think their lives mean less? Look at how they were killed and look at the apparent lack of boundaries in the hearts of the perpetrators. Mindanao might be in the Middle Ages but so are you for not putting this on top of your lists today, this abhorrent deed. You are like the nobility of 500 years ago who’d drink wine and eat roast pig and splendid time while the peasantry are being raped and killed by barbarians.

He does have a point, one that should not go over the heads of those who have the habit of jumping on each and every indignation bandwagon.

But, to be honest about it, I personally don’t feel obliged to write about the Maguindanao Massacre. That’s not to say though that I don’t feel angry that such a barbaric event still happens in our country. As a human being, I’m all indignant about the loss of life resulting from this barbaric and brazen display of violence. I’m so angry in fact I wish a slow and painful death would befall the perpetrators and those closest to them. But that’s just me.

Anyway, if you’re looking for a sensible write-up about the Maguindanao Massacre that goes beyond the dime-a-dozen type of indignation look no further than this one over at www.antipinoy.com.