The objectively earth-shattering news that... what's happening, exactly? Is it just Tito, Vic and Joey who are leaving TAPE Inc., the producers of Eat Bulaga!? Is the whole show itself leaving TAPE? The announcement - live-streamed, not aired on television - was carefully-worded but left a lot of things vague, just like the in-fighting within the production company over the past few months.
But anyway, that news - that news is just one more salvo in what has been a pretty unsettling few weeks, or months, or years, even, depending on who you ask.
Today is also the day when we woke up to the news that the Senate passed a "reconstructed", to quote some media outfits, version of the proposal to establish the Maharlika Investment Fund, which will... I don't know what it will do, exactly. What will it invest on? Proponents are now saying it will greatly contribute to the government's push for build new infrastructure. Alongside loans from international entities and other countries? Alongside major Filipino conglomerates who have already built layers of elevated highways in the capital? Is this when I use the "shadow government" card?
This week we've been in the presence of a super typhoon, and the weekend news was filled with stories about everyone preparing, from local government pre-positioning their response to ordinary citizens being dissuaded from hoarding food. Then... well, there isn't nothing; the storm wasn't going to hit land, but it is bringing a lot of rains to northern Luzon. Here in Manila, however, as I write this, it's way too sunny. Is this when I use the "gaslighting by the weather" card? Not really, but there were expectations, set by years of experience, and suddenly, everything's been upended.
In fact, it does feel like we're in a sort of alternate universe. The things that used to really get people going, sending them to the streets, don't anymore. Maybe it's the pandemic, and how it really just rewired us and changed the way we do things. Maybe we've decided to be a bit more hedonistic, pursue our passions and our loves, never mind what the rest of the world feels? No, that doesn't entirely ring true, not even in my own experiences. But still, it does feel like the world we live in has changed a lot, too much, in the past few whiles, and most of us don't know how to deal with it all just yet.
And I say "most of us" because there are always the so-called "disruptors" and "innovators" who will preach from their molehills, insisting they are the only way and we should follow them - and of course, there are the very rich people who just don't care. Like, I guess, the Jalosjos family?
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