'The DepEd’s raw exercise of autocratic power is neither trivial nor harmless'
At first, it seemed like the usual propensity of bureaucrats to dwell on trivialities, inundating any substantive discourse on their failed performance with mountains of irrelevance. The order of education officials that school classrooms be as spartan as military barracks counts as one of those. Seemingly trivial, it is spun as a solution to our festering 91% learning poverty. It is also seemingly harmless relative to grander concerns relating to the miseducation of the Filipino.
Such profundity or its total lack in resorting to a militaristic Draconian measure recalls a solon’s ridiculous declaration that Reserve Officer Training Courses are solutions to the worsening mental health issues among our youth. Spawned from the political bureaucracy, its goal is undeniable where the whole hierarchy seems to have its foundations on a mandate based on wholesale electronic fraud. Once more Robespierre’s truism turns most apt: “The secret of tyranny is in keeping ignorant.”
Closer perhaps to a Pavlovian experiment in controlling behavior to establish subservience sans consent nor understanding, think of the unquestioning canine loyalty in a military chain of command. While appropriate and expedient under battlefield conditions, it is undemocratic.If the extended metaphor of a termite infestation is apt, discern then its other nests and hives and the specific nature of the indoctrination campaign throughout the bureaucracy.
Now measure the short umbilical cord of the MIL and these departments to the Presidential Communications Office where the development of a ‘comprehensive execution plan’ is being devised to address the PCO’s information objectives.
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