What makes rizal obsolete

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Original Title: make rizal obsolete. Related titles. Carousel Previous Carousel Next. A hero is he who best understands the society in which he lives, who knows the problems and aspirations of his people, who by his teachings and his labors, concretizes these problems and aspirations so that the vague discontent and the hazy strivings towards something better in the people's minds are crystallized into a clear pattern of action with definite goals.

Rizal is still very much our hero because he crystallized for his generation as well as for ours most of the great problems of Philippine society. In page after page of his Noli Me Tangere and his El Filibusterismo we read indictments of our present society.

In chapter XI of El Filibusterismo, Simoun, addressing the friars and the military and civil functionaries, said, "The evil is not in that there are tulisanes in the mountains and uninhabited parts --the evil lies in the tulisanes in the towns and cities. For after all, what is a tulisan, essentially?

He is a man who disregards and is contemptous of the law, and who, by fair means or foul, is bent on getting for himself whatever he desires regardless of the consequences to society of his his anti-social actions. Today, those who profit from the people's money, those who make of government a milking cow, those who derive income by dishonest means, the civil functionaries who merely watch the clock, the teachers who neglect their duties, the officers of the law who mulct and extort, the hoardersm the profiteers -these are all tulisanes of the towns and cities.

The evil which Rizal pointed out is compounded in our society because, corrupt as we are, we do not outlaw these tulisanes, we do not ostracize them. Instead, we admire them as practical men who know how to live. We fawn upon them because they are not Don Quixotes, idealists or visionaries but ruthless men whose doctrine is "the Devil takes the hindmost," and we respect men once they ahave achieved material success, no matter what the means.

Truly, the tulisanes are not only in the mountains. The Pelaezes the the Present The techniques of enrichment exposed by Rizal during his day find their counterparts in present-day society.

The incident involving the shrewed Don Timoteo Pelaez in El Filibusterismo no doubt will seem familiar to many of our "Dons" and "Honorables. How did this favor the good Don Timoteo? Simple, he had just received a shipment of galvanized iron. A hitch developed however.

This worried Don Timoteo because his competitotrs' shipment might arrive on time. Then it was discovered that the owners of the houses, inconsiderate wretches, were too poor to buy the glavanized sheets. But no matter, Don Timoteo's business friends shrewdly suggested that he buy the houses at a ridiculously low price, have the decree rescinded, and then resell them at an enormous profit.

Whether Don Timoteo followed this excellent advice or not, Rizal does not say; but the mere fact that the suggestion was made, and made so matter-of-factly, is proof that these devious business practices were the rule rather than the exception. No one can say we have run out of Don Timoteos in our time. One-Armed Bandits Rizal's generation had its own quota of "fixers" and influence peddlers.

In Chapter XLIX of the Noli Me Tangere, Rizal introduces us to the one-armed man, who upon hearing that the wife of Capitan Tinong had presented the Capitan General with a ring worth P1, because of Tinong's fear that he might be implicated in the case of Ibarra, hurriedly left the gathering in order to put his vicious plans into operation. Soon after we find Capitan Tinong taken to Fort Santiago together with other men of position and property.

Rizal hints that the one-armed man was engaged in the nefarious trade of first scheming to imprison men of means and position and later working for their release for a certain price.

The governemnt employe who purposely enmeshes the citizen in red tape so that he may "facilitate" or 'expedite" matters for a considration, is perhaps only a pickpocket edition of the one-armed man but his crime is of the same nature.

Rizal of course did not foresee the existence of influence peddling and fixing as a thriving profession today. So thriving that I am surprised these ladies and gentlemen have not yet formed an Association of Fixers of the Philippines. But the fact remains that one more evil in Rizal's Philippine society is still with us. To be continued Posted by Bert M.

Cerrar sugerencias Buscar Buscar. Saltar el carrusel. Carrusel anterior. Carrusel siguiente. Cargado por Bert M Drona. Thus, to say that we need to make him obsolete is to mean removing those socioeconomic conditions of Rizal's time. Compartir este documento Compartir o incrustar documentos Opciones para compartir Compartir en Facebook, abre una nueva ventana Facebook. Denunciar este documento.

Marcar por contenido inapropiado. Descargar ahora. Carrusel anterior Carrusel siguiente. Renato Constantino-Veneration Without Understanding. Veneration Without Understanding by Renato Constantino. Buscar dentro del documento. Renato Constantino This Week, Manila Chronicle, June 14, The validity of Rizal's teachings today, sixty three years after his death, is both a measure of his greatness and of our lack of greatness as a nation.

Bert M Drona. Elaiza Marie Parumog. Chikoy Anonuevo. For all the iconography and hero-worship and the subsequent hero-bashing accorded to Rizal, he was the first iconoclast.

His commitment to being prim, proper and serious, though it cost him friends, was probably the reason he is respected both by enemies and friends alike. We label him reformist, yet his fellow burgis comrades are shocked with his radicalism.

He was among the first to sing odes to feminism for the lasses of Malolos likened to the Spartan women of old , and thought of mothers with independent minds Capitana Maria of Noli Me Tangere. He even fell in and out of love with a stranger probably just as lost as him.

He is as human as many of us are with all of our screw-ups. He is dead, yet we, too, can live his life. What then to recall at June 19, for a man who insisted at his last will that there be no anniversaries for him?

You who are to see the dawn, welcome it, and do not forget those who fell during the night. Rizal is not our goal. He is the hurdle to overcome, to realize our untapped possibilities. We should be more understanding, more willing to speak with each other, more willing to take the side of the oppressed.

We should be more capable of forgiving the slightest wrongs. Yet Jesus, like Rizal, was as mortal and as challenged as us and was capable of surmounting them, to be what we know them now. Leave a comment. Filed under Culture , History , Journalistic. Tagged as culture , history , jose rizal , philippines. You are commenting using your WordPress.