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Lethargic, laid-back, peaceful, fourth class, poor
Island Marinduque with its beautiful landscapes and as locale
to one of the country’s richest mineral resources has constantly been described
as lethargic, laid-back, peaceful, fourth class, poor . The ‘impoverished kind of living’ of the majority of its unempowered inhabitants, who are reduced to
depending on alms, dole-outs and favors they could squeeze from traditional
politics, reckoning these as eternal debt, continue to glare. Such kind of
politics, must in turn be preserved through corrupt practices whatever
trappings are left of an old feudalistic system, that provide comfort and
heaven on earth to the rich and powerful - that extends to their well-entrenched
allies and subalterns in government. At times, the conspiracy could also extend to national official halls and undertaken in the spirit of ‘kaibigan, kamag-anak, kaklase’.
A formula for heaven – heaven as a place where nothing ever
happens.
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Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens
Listen to HEAVEN by Talking Heads
