ABSTRACT

The unwholesome tendencies which we regarded merely as aberrations of our normal life, not as danger signals pointing to a coming general economic and moral breakdown, are now engulfing our society, making us more confused and desperate. The glowing prose of status quo apologists notwithstanding, we are a society without a central, common purpose, whose members are obsessed with the pursuit of idleness. As objective conditions make life more unbearable, cynicism will turn into widespread dissent, and indifference will give way to an active search for real alternative approaches to our problems. Democracy in the Philippines is a reality for the few and only an illusion for the majority. Neither should economic development be equated with our growing Americanization or Westernization, A people does not achieve economic development by the acquisition of western modes of living. Modes of living must be based on objective reality within the country.