The Appalling Hypocrisy that Cloaks Humankind
Posted on Wednesday, 7 September 2016
THE APPALLING HYPOCRISY THAT CLOAKS
HUMANKIND
By Apolinario Villalobos
When China initiated a bold expansion of
her maritime territory that practically encroached into other nations’ own, the
United Nations looked the other way…the United States did not give a damn, not
even Russia, Great Britain. When realization about the imminent danger to the
international community was finally perceived, affected nations reacted, the
United States issued warnings, but with crossed fingers behind her. The
Philippines has been left with her lonely struggle to assert her rights. Big
nations of the world became noisy and issued their own warnings. Despite those,
China went ahead and today, is almost finished with her grand design for the
West Philippine Sea. The world has been entertained by a collective
hypocritical concern for a struggling nation, the Philippines who buoyantly
thinks, she will succeed in her lone quixotic effort!
Despite the fact that the internet is
flooded with information about the corruption of leaders of big nations, no
other leader of other nations ever attempted to call their attention because it
would be unbecoming and undiplomatic. So while corrupt leaders suck the life
out of their suffering constituents, other leaders look on because to lift a finger
is unethical, especially, if the nations concerned are almost their equal. But
when leaders of third-world nations become controversial in their leadership
style, their counterparts from giant nations croak their “concern”.
As a president or as a prime minister or as
whatevergoddamnpositionyougot, one MUST always be “good mannered, kindly,
apologetic, Godly, etc.”. To utter one brash word, a president becomes unfit to
the office to which he is elected. How sure can the whole world be that leaders
of other nations, big or small, don’t ever mumble the equivalent of “Shit”,
“God damn you”, “To hell with you”, and othershits in their language when they
are within the confines of their office and confronted with a head-breaking
situation? If the goodmannereds say it is okey so long as the public does not
hear them….is that not a shitty hypocrisy?
Looking back to the time of Jesus, when
Herod sentenced him to die on the cross, the latter washed his hands…a blatant
show of hypocrisy. Still looking back at the earlier chapters of the Old
Testament, the god of the Israelites told them to kill those who would block
their way to the Promised Land… is there no hypocrisy in such instruction as
humans are supposed to lover each other? If their god was a powerful one, why
didn’t he just strike the pagans with enlightening lightning to jolt them into
a compassionate state to make them share their land with the Israelites whom he
made to roam the desert for forty years?
Splinters of the Mosaic/Sinaic faith fight
to death for the sake of their supposedly right teaching but act differently
which led even Jesus to brand them all as hypocrites. Today, it is still
happening within the so many established churches resulting to the sprouting of
various new and enlightened Christian communities to which dissenting members
found solace as they could no longer stand the obnoxious air of hypocrisy
within the walls of their former cathedrals and chapels.
Plagiarism is a common word that has become
as common as the expression, “shit”. Writers of politicians plagiarize essays
to be transformed into remarkable speeches for their bosses. Students of
reputable universities and colleges copy/paste uploads of authors- known and
unknown… word for word, chapter for chapter, from the internet to be submitted
as thesis which their professors accept trustfully. Identification cards,
personal documents, land titles, etc. are forged. Enterprising people come up
with fake food, fake brands of commodities, and many others. Laws are passed
against them, but how many are slapped with appropriate penalties? We hate
these acts, yet, the attitude is one of hypocritical and selfishness….looking
the other way while hoping that they do not get worse or affect us. While the
pretense prevails, the commission of such malevolent acts venture beyond
control and gets worst!
At this juncture, I dare say, humanity
dwells on hypocrisy….so each of us should stop asking why we are living in such
a “cruel world”!
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