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The Flourishing Culture of Fakery
Posted on Friday, 29 May 2015
The Flourishing
Culture of Fakery
By Apolinario Villalobos
The unprecedented flourishing of fakery has cultivated a
culture that became an integral component of life. It has made virtual luxuries
affordable, such that anybody can be covered with “gold” jewelries; window shop
wearing “branded” shoes, apparel, and knick knacks; sport a sweet smile to show
beautifully crafted false teeth, some even tattooed or embedded with diamonds;
strut along busy lanes, chest out, to vaunt proud breasts implanted with silicon;
look pretty in false eyelashes and eyebrows; and assume another personality
with transplanted sexual organ.
Practically, one can be transformed into a “he” or a “she”
by undergoing a total physical makeover, from the face down to the rest of the
body parts. Society has become lenient to those who are undergoing gender
change to make their lives comfortable and fulfilled. For health’s sake, some
people are walking the streets with battery-operated fake heart. And, of
course, the fake appendages such as arms and legs should not be forgotten, as
well as, the fake eyes, nose, ears and hair – all for comfort’s sake.
Digitization did not solve the fraudulence in the use of
passport. While before, the original photo on the stolen ID can be easily
peeled off, with that of the look-alike user pasted on its place, today, the
user’s face is changed, instead, through plastic surgery to “fit” the photo
which is permanently printed on the document.
In Manila, there is a short portion of Recto Avenue that
could make a great transformation on the life of a person, where the
manufacture of fake scholastic documents and post graduate achievements, as
well as, status in life, are advertised intimately. “Agents” approach
pedestrians to whisper the expertise of their colleagues in printing diplomas
and transcripts of records – name your school or university, they will do it in
less than an hour. The same can also be done for the driving license and for
the practice of trade in the fields of medicine, teaching, engineering, etc.
They have prototypes of practically all schools all over the Philippines. Even
ID cards are not spared, as all they need is just a sample that the customer
will show. Even old birth certificates, marriage certificates and land titles,
complete with signatures can be faked with a flourish.
Man’s way of life presently is already overwhelmed by
fakery. The food he eats are
manufactured and imbued with the necessary nutrients. What is bad is the double
fakery being committed by the unscrupulous, as even manufactured foods such as
instant noodles are further faked using unhealthy and cheap ingredients. There
are fake sugar and salt, even food flavors and colors. There is also the fake
meat that the vegetarians eat. Unfortunately, natural food products such as
vegetables, fruits and marine products are either soaked in or injected with
formalin, so that they will maintain their fake fresh look for days.
The only way, perhaps, to tolerate these fake, manufactured,
and poisoned foods is to have fake metallic or rubber guts– from the small to
the large intestines which should be imbedded with “squeezers” that shall
process the foods taken in for their nutrients until they come out as waste.
With that, it is no longer embarrassing to slush out waste from the body even
in public places, as all it needs is discreetly attach a tube to either of
one’s side. That particular hole down there, the traditional exit point of the
body, may already be plugged permanently. Expect something of this kind to be
manufactured in China being the forerunner in this kind of trade, as they also
manufacture fake rice, fake salt, fake cellphones, fake brands of apparel, fake
drugs, fake beauty products, raise fake peking ducks, and the ultimate –
transform coral reefs into fake islands! Who knows, the waste that shall come
out of the fake guts may still be recycled by the overly resourceful Chinese
into biscuits! Take note, there is now an expensive coffee manufactured out of
the coffee beans that come out as waste of civets. These civets are raised on
coffee beans that come out as their waste, still whole but peeled and
undigested.
On the other hand, time may come when the wealthy members of
society may no longer flaunt jewelries which are among the gauge of affluence.
Instead, they may proudly brandish arms of pure 24k gold or fine strands of
gold or silver implanted on their head to accent the shade of their hair. Their
fluttering eyelids may already be made of thin softened sheet of silver or gold
imbedded with diamonds. Their lips may be permanently coated with a new kind of
lipstick to better enhance the smile with a certain kind of sheen. And, also
the sole of their feet made of titanium may be strapped with retractable wheels
for swift mobility as necessary.
The world is teeming with people clad in pretensions. Some
of these are the hypocrites in the government who pretend to be diligently
dedicated to their jobs. They try to support their claim with fake
accomplishments. Worst, fakery in the government has also spelled disaster and
anguish among the constituents, with the proliferation of fake documents being
used for the release of budgets, resulting to the depletion of government funds
in no time.
As prophesied, fake messiahs are now boldly evangelizing
with gusto in the open, while enjoying the fruit of their fakery which suckers
who want to be “saved” have bitten with all their heart. These fake messiahs
live in mansions and are driven around in luxury cars. From their humble status
as struggling pastors with a few followers who congregate in rented apartments
and small commercial stalls, they are transformed into jetsetters who maintain
vacation houses in the Mediterranean coast or high-end cities for weekend
jaunts. And, their mesmerized followers now meet in palatial and air-conditioned
houses of worship. Some even maintain slots on TV and radio to ensure that they
can lure more suckers.
Finally, only death can free man from all the shams, as such
state serves as his final solace, after enjoying all the blessings that God gave
him, though, spoiled by his earthly and narcissistic greed!
