I just remembered a conversation I had with Marck (The Marochim Experiment guy, great guy!). While we were having our smoking session during a lull in Janette Toral's awarding of the 2008 Influential Blogger's Night, we went into serious talk about blogging and how bloggers are becoming more and more important in shaping the information environment.
I told Marck that for me, I share Janette's view that blogging is slowly turning into a serious business. Digressing a little bit, blogging for me is a social responsibility, a serious one at that. One of my reasons why I want to remain anonymous here at the Web is I want to detach my professional life from my blogger's life. My job deals with marketing communications. I'm into PR. Yet, I don't write stuff about my client in any of my blogs simply because I consider my blog site as a hallowed place, a place where I am free to write what I want, to share what I consider to be precious and important to those whom I consider to matter most--the Filipino People
My blog is my Nirvana, my Olympus. My blog site is my new Sierra Madre.
I write politics because I can't detach myself from it. I tried to write things about my daily work, my devotion as a strat comm practitioner but I simply can't. I can't force my hand to stop typing on my Mac because I want to express what I feel about what's happening around me. Though I live a perfumed life, nonetheless, it pains me to see all my brothers and sisters wallowing in extreme poverty while Arroyo and her gang of pigs feast on what should be theirs.
The inequality I see all around me affects me the most. I just can't stop writing about these issues. Accuse me of being a political junkie, but that's reality. One comment from Mich over at FilipinoVoices says that its not only politics and problems that we need to talk about. We need to talk about other things, like cars for example. My gulay! Why would we talk about cars when all around us we see misery and poverty and injustice and plain and simple inhumanity!
We need to talk about politics and how it is being destroyed and used by unscrupulous people for their own selfish interests. I will not get tired of talking about the mismanagement of this country by these greedy bunch of pigs led by the devil infant because I believe it is the right thing to do.
The blogger's voice is the purest voice of our generation. It is the only rational voice we have in our age. It is the only one thing that keeps us sane in this extremely insane world. Hearing those voices is like listening to angels. When we talk about politics here, we do so only to expose the grievous errors that affect millions of lives. When we talk about social issues, we do so because we need to tell the world how f..ckd we are and how timely it is for us to act now rather than procrastinate and wait for 2010!
Like the trash I see going up to Mount Banahaw, I am seeing the creeping influence of PR agencies in the lives of some bloggers. Please, my colleagues, don't succumb to the honey-coated words of those who want to influence your voice. We became bloggers because we have something to say. And we do so without strings attached and without us parroting another one's voice.
We blog not for the honor nor the money. We blog because we are who we are.
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