Are You Clueless?

Once in a while it's okay to sour-grape or be the bittermelon. Bite the bittermelon and laugh at the effect of what could the bittermelon will do for your health. Bittermelon of course is the fresh green wrinkled veggie that lowers high blood pressure.

Because we are the product of the 70's Elementary Education I cannot let this pass without a vengeance. Let us sort this out as a "reverie." Truth is vengeance is not mine. I am just an educator wanting everyone to know what really happened in the 70's from 1970 to 1975.

In Economics Year 1970- 1975 is sort of the Cyclical Peak. According to John "W." Kendrick (W for Tungsten W for Water and W for Engineering). For the Clueless it's called "Whatever!"

What really happened in the 70's? the tumultous incredible problematic years of economic burden all over the world. The cyclical factors when aggregate demands and capacity utilization was so HIGH. It was so high you cannot reach the sky. The highest point between the end of economic expansion. Wow! EXPANSE!

In all honesty, I was in Elementary Grades from 1970-1976 and that period of time was the time of perfection. It was sort of growth and productivity of the minds for every students. It was the years, long years of being in a Martial Law Era. Rote memory is imposed. Lots of memorization. We don't have the computers and cellphones. We relied on low technology. We don't even have typewriters in Grade Schools, High Schools and College. The low tech didn't mean our minds are low tech. Our MINDS are HIGH TECH! Our hands are highly skilled.  We have to be perfect and perfectionist because the President of the Philippines was almost a perfect human. The most intelligent human being was the President of the Philippines. What is life under the Martial Law? It was not chaotic. It was an era of PEACE & ORDER. It was an orderly alignment of everything, peaceful, clean, people were morally upright, honest, trustworthy, industrious, smarts, and courteous. Family values are implemented. Family customs, traditions are basically emphasized. Anybody who opposed to the orderly arrangement then face certain consequences. Who are the offenders?

In other parts of the world: Khmer Rouge Cambodians massacred the elite upper class society, the professionals were slaughtered. A war movie was produced in behalf of that chaotic situation of ethnic cleansing. The war in Vietnam non-stop, the economic condition of America is destabilized. Lots of recorded LOOTING. Death, theft, murders, assassination. Patty Hearst, daughter of Millionaire newspaper tycoon was abducted by PLO. The war in different parts of the world contributed to the many instability of the global economic and political conditions and it was "cyclical." There were bank runs, banks shutting down. Money invested and deposited in those local banks were GONE!  Poverty is high. Calamities and natural disasters (earthquakes and typhoons) were overwhelming. Too many millions automatically became homeless. The agricultural lands were destroyed and infrastructures were damaged and it took long years to rebuild. Scarcity of resources were evident. Fishermen had used dynamites in order to catch fish (because they came home without any catch). Dairy products and meat products were not delivered and the people were eating meat from horses and carabaos. Carabaos the water buffalos became extinct. People were hungry, no rice is available that ground corn became the staple product. Poverty stricken Vietnamese, East Indians and Filipinos suffered. Too many malnourished asians and to think that those people were poor, hungry and thirsty...they were able to study harder and reached their potentials and be part of the Good Society. The Progressive NEW SOCIETY.

Remember the many RED ALERTS? Why the Red Alerts? Infiltration? The end of the War in Vietnam in 1975. It's hard to determine who are Vietnamese, Chinese or Filipinos. Refugees abound in Philippines. The war in Vietnam is finished and another war broke up. A classmate of mine was crying when she was told of the news that her father( soldier) was beheaded in Mindanao. It was tragic! I cried with her, the whole class cried. It was one of the devastating shocking news. Then one after another news was heard when military troops were coming back home from Mindanao suffering from malaria and unfortunately so many hundreds to thousands of them died and their bodies lied in the morgue, some of them in the military hospitals and those dead soldiers were in the military church inside their coffins. Unbelievable but it's true. War is something so tragic and unforgettable.

Now what? The children of today at present generation are very fortunate. The result of hardship, structural shift and expansion? Our kids are the ones benefited in this structural result from the 70's. So children you must be thankful, be grateful because what you are wasting your time now is something you have to be honestly thankful and grateful. I may repeat what I have written here again and again but because I want you to KNOW and be informed of the legacy of the 70's.