Our Task: to Make Rizal Obsolete

Our Task: To Make Rizal Obsolete - Part 1 of 2

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To read Part 2 click on: Making Rizal Obsolete – Part 2 of 2

“The true Filipino is a decolonized Filipino.” – Prof. Renato Constantino

(1919-1999)

“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can

solve them”. – Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992

"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people

you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can

perform." - Theodore H. White (1915 - 1986)

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About 3 months ago, I posted a rebuttal article by Prof. Floro Quibuyen, which I

entitled Rizal as Religion, Constantino As Dogma, to Prof. Roland

Simbulan's "Rizal as Religion." I invite you to read it and the mentioned article

by Prof. Simbulan, which is also linked in the article.

Speaking of heroes, many of us Filipinos tend to wallow in nostalgiaabout our

heroes. We seem to have put them on a pedestal and accorded them demigod

and/or superhuman attributes. Rather remember that like us ordinary guys,

they had their own weaknesses, vices and selfish interests. [Note that in recent

decades, well-known and respected American historians have written about the

the myths and the men of so-called Founding Fathers, which are welldocumented revelations]. Sure heroes were unusual. Though they were very

much a product of their own circumstances and time (as we today are much a

product of our present conditions and time), heroes had a better grasp of the

horizon, so to speak.

The...