Editorial | Let’s END This Madness

Day 494, 10:14 • Published in Philippines Philippines • by Swagger McSwag

Allow me to take this opportunity to put you out of your misery.

That is, I’d like to put an end to this FPM-related madness once and for all by using simple, cold and irrefutable logic.

Since the Filipino Progressive Movement landed on our shores just a few days prior to the March 25 congressional elections, there has been no end to bickering, and expressions of distrust and resentment, culminating into Anthony Trafford’s most incendiary article, entitled “Message to FPM!”, which appeared on Traff’s Point not so long ago.

My friends, let me give you two scenarios.

Theory #1: The FPM is a group of people who have played eRepublik for such a long time that they got bored and decided to try something new: move to some underdeveloped, backwater nation and build it from the ground up into the newest eWorld superpower. An ambitious project. Ambitious enough to keep them from getting bored. They are therefore sincere in helping out and the Philippines will live happily ever after.

Theory #2: The FPM are really good at leading people on. They are a manifestation of the Anglo-American imperialist movement that aims to recreate the once-great RL American/British Empire in the eWorld. Their real motive is to use the Philippines as a staging ground for a future titanic battle with Indonesia. The Philippines will forever remain in obscurity and be trampled under the feet of foreign powers.

(Of course, if you will just open their eyes, you will see that theory #2 is obviously ridiculous. However, it is not the object of this article to point out why that is so.)

Now. What every citizen of the Philippines must recognize, and which many unfortunately do not, is that, in both these scenarios, there is absolutely nothing we can do.

We don’t have the numbers. We don’t have the money. We don’t even have the experience. We’re not even united.

How do I know this?

If we were united, if we had the experience, and if we had the numbers, a Congress with a Filipino majority would have blocked all efforts by Bunaly and his thieving friends to loot the national treasury. We would have a thousand GOLD to use to jumpstart the Philippine economy. We would have government-run companies in place to stabilize the prices of commodities. We would actually have commodities. Finally, we would not need an FPM to intervene and help and guide us, because we would be able to do just fine by ourselves.

But we didn’t and we couldn’t.

(Not that it’s our fault, of course. The blame belongs to Bunaly and Co.)

If, after March 28th, in a ludicrous turn of events, an FPM-led Congress decides to declare war on the UK, giving ATLANTIS pretext to attack the Philippines, we would not stand a chance. I’m not exactly sure, but the number of active Super Soldiers in the Philippines could probably be counted with your fingers and toes.

And Indonesia wouldn’t take kindly to that. Say hello to World War 4.

So, what are we to do, then?

Are we supposed to lie on backs and let the world happen around us, like the grass in the field?

In a way, yes. For now, we learn from this experience. We observe how the FPM goes about its business helping the government repair the country. Those of us who want to found their own companies, we study other companies and how their general managers run them. We study data and fact sheets and statistics. It’s boring but you need to do it if you want to own a successful company here, just like in real life. We gain knowledge, and information and experience.

We invite our friends to play eRepublik (that’s what I’m doing) to swell the numbers of RL Filipinos playing the game.

We publish articles to promote public awareness, unity, solidarity, camaraderie and a sense of community among the people.

We wait. We become better. And then we rise up and take our rightful place as the masters of our own affairs.

Perhaps, in the future, when all is said and done, when we ourselves will have been already bored with the game, another country will be established, and another Bunaly will loot its national treasury, we will be the new FPM. We will come to their shores as the (name of country here) Progressive Movement and we will offer our money and our help and expertise. We will meet initial opposition like what the FPM is currently facing. But we will prevail, and we will have made the world a better place.

At the risk of being redundant, I admonish you, "The grass bends easily in the wind; the great oak stands unmoved. A strong wind can uproot the oak, but no wind, however strong, can uproot the grass that bends flat before it."

For the last time, my friends, learn to be like the grass.
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