Differential equations have become more manageable than this mess
Let me start off with something important to point out: Everything is literally falling apart. It is like we pre-bought tickets to a premium circus show, and we get to sit on the nearest seat for a better view.
Genuine question: Why are we playing musical chairs for the Senate president spot? We literally have bigger issues to take care of. And mind you, we are paying the government through taxes to work for the betterment of our country and its people.
We are paying them to do their job and be competent. But look at what is happening: a conflict between the bloc of Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian and the bloc of Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano. A battle between two factions—truly absolute cinema, isn’t it?
At this point, citizens can go ahead and review the House and Senate bills and try to modify them. Or better yet, let the mathematicians use differential equations to see if such bills and policies are truly effective in the long-term.
I think it would be incredibly refreshing if, under all of this emotional political drama, we had unbiased citizens who have no time to pay attention to such drama and personally review the bills themselves through mathematical, statistical, and logical rigor. Because if they are going to keep delaying everything through this pointless struggle for a chair, then we might as well take matters into our own hands. We can help each other to nurture one another and this country while the government is playing tug-of-war like children wanting the same toy and now fighting over it.
Provincial wage rates, cyberbullying, a lack of funding in research and development, physics and mathematics in the Philippines, and the welfare of farmers—oh, I could name a lot of issues that the government should be tackling right now, but they’re still stuck in that situation.
When is this going to end? I’d rather solve 10 difficult ordinary and partial differential equations than tolerate this mess and simply wait for it to subside. It’s time to show political maturity and focus on the people of this country; we are the ones who are suffering the most because of all this drama within the Senate (and the House).
It’s time to stop being clowns and focus on making this country thrive. Further issues like this are the reason why almost everyone in the Philippines is cynical in the first place, which makes my message now feel pointless.
Marciano L. Legarde,
marcianolegarde@gmail.com
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