Notes from the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos on leadership and the Filipino ideology
There are times I go through my uncle the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos’ books, speeches, and unpublished manuscripts and see words and even paragraphs that stand out as they resonate with the current political, social, and cultural conditions.
Lately, the nation has been questioned on what has been perceived as reflective of “shortsightedness” or stop-gap reaction to issues on hand. Gone are the days of statesmen, I suppose, and all we have now are politicians. I am aware of the difference between a statesman and a politician as a concept but I cannot articulate it better than PFEM.
“Periods of crisis are periods of pragmatism. Such pragmatism can sometimes mean the abandonment of principle, and the celebration of technicism in its worst forms. This is even truer when the crisis is economic in nature and national in scope. The siren songs of exigency and unprincipled pragmatism become exceedingly alluring.
It is more dangerous short-sightedness and form of betrayal, which for monetary solutions, denies the ideological imperatives our history teaches us we need to adhere to unless we want the errors of the past repeated. This short-sightedness—to assume the lesser error—is, however, so prevalent today that we are in danger of being overwhelmed by an outlook that would surrender every principle for exigency.
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