Student "edition" found at {thoughts dot com slash typed no space out no space loud slash blog}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Some people thrive on having a persecution complex. I guess we can trace it not just to the beatitudes where they feel they are blest or will be in the kingdom of heaven, but in the local TV shows.

Damn, maybe this topic is better suited for the student accessible version, but what will I write about here today then, something else, which means that I have to wrack my brain for a new subject?

Plodding on then: since the seventies, or maybe earlier, Philippine films with mass appeal and box office draws have more often than not been those about literally poor people who have been laughed at and exploited for their whole lives without any redemption except by a huge external story element.

By this I mean that they do not change their behavior, or if they do it is of the extreme negative way of killing off all of those who have mocked them because they have suffered enough.

Otherwise they seem to have been so much indoctrinated by the local writers and producers that if they just continue suffering, sooner or later they will receive their reward from some outside source.

In fact, if it were not for The Princess and the Frog, then this attitude of waiting and longing will be the same as all the other Disney Princesses in the past and their Someday-My-Prince-Will-Come variant ditties.

That is actually the subject of a tangential rant though, as for today it is a more third world concern.

My point is that people have to learn to actively start doing something to alleviate their miserable condition.

Right now all they want to do is keep slacking because they have seen their fellow countrymen actors in roles where their lives were suddenly turned around by some desperate situation such as their entire family being killed just because they accidentally happened to witness a killing by a rich and corrupt person of influence or some impossible circumstance where they start out being adversaries or argumentative because they come from different economic backgrounds and eventually fall in love.

It is even worse when you have already told the person what they need to do to get out of their rut, but they still maintain the path of least resistance, which is to do nothing or to maintain the status quo, and so they continue to invite ridicule from the people around them willingly, silently.

And sometimes this is not even about a financial situation. Sometimes this is about unrequited love, and here there is a little help from Hollywood and their long drawn out TV series which of course builds up the tension.

What they do not know is that in real life, not in forty four minute segments per week or per torrent, it is more difficult to remain in that state of not expressing your feelings to someone else.

And the longer that stays rooted in the emotion, the more protracted will be the moving on part when eventually, after a state of denial that rivals the duration of vote counting in this country.

So while the people are still in that situation, the people around them, particularly those that have already told them what they should do instead of wallowing in self martyrdom, remain in judgment.

Session 3055 wishes for a new kind of TV show. Class dismissed.