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Reflections on the Think Tank Conference
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This conference made my day! I met a lot of intellectuals who are community actors too. Even if there was only one woman speaker from the group, the speakers were the cream of the crop. I am so happy that I attended it despite the late invitation. Anyway, one of the speakers who was a multi-awarded Filipino here in the Philippines and abroad, started talking about Joseph Campbell and how we Filipinos should be acting like an archetypal hero (the hero with a thousand faces) did to transform himself and his community.

I wanted to react though that of the thousand faces of a hero, there are 6 major archetypal heroes: innocent, orphan, martyr, wanderer, warrior, and magician. At the current state of Filipino change-makers/ actors, most of them belong to the warrior mode. This means that a lot of the actors sacrifice part of themselves in order to achieve their goals for the community. However, a warrior's energy or power is that of a Tiger (in martial arts) which is very sensitive, it reacts and responds quickly. As for Filipinos, the "EDSA 1, EDSA2 and all other major rallies and protests", which is not necessarily wrong. It actually worked during the the Martial Law. However, Filipinos' archetypal hero (actors) needs to be transformed into a magician. Magician's power is that of a dragon, which does not only react or respond but it acts, therefore there is an initiative to do something new and external factors are not needed to do something but its (dragon/magician) sensibility. This also means that actions are always guided by wisdom (in Oriental myth, the dragon is the epitome of wisdom since it realeases fire, which is a powerful element for change, as in the case of alchemy).

Another point which I wanted to make if I had the time to do so was that, I do not agree with what Bro. Armin said that "all of us are actors and since we have no prior script, we have to act on based on our judgement." On the contrary, the socio-political and socio-economic crisis that our country is facing right now had happened before, therefore the patterns (script) are the same. What we really need is discernment. How do we change the ending of this theatrical act or the grand narrative of the Filipino Nation? Or shall I say, how do we act to change our dramatic (as in Aristotleian Drama) ending like what happens in the "theatre of the oppressed"? One of the mistakes for the actors (the Filipinos themselves) is that they always look for some kind of a deus ex machina or let the Gods fix it for us. Or the Filipino attitude, "Bahala Na" (come what may) And who are these gods that people turn to but the Cardinals, Bishops, Priests and yes, the Supreme Court Justices? Filipinos point to them and ask these gods to lead them and deliver them from evil. But when it fails, who are they going to turn to but themselves, is it not? As in the case of the Church's stand on ZTE NBN/ GMA issue.


April 23, 2008 | 8:03 AM Comments  0 comments

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