The best and worst of times: RSA for president

I texted this to my various Viber groups: "This month I turn 76. Sadly, the world is not getting any better.

- TONY LOPEZ

Society is not getting polite at all. Nor intelligent. In America today, lies, racism, bigotry, misogyny, hate, curses, even murder are the elements of a leading presidential candidate's platform, if you can call it platform. He just might win. In the Philippines, we just went through one of the most violent periods in our history. One of the most popular presidents ever is supposed to have killed 30,000, half of what the NPA killed in 55 years of rebellion. His daughter threatens to chop the incumbent president's head off and excavate the remains of his dad to throw them into the nearest sea. His son hauled in P51 billion of our money and cannot explain where it went. It's now normal to curse in every sentence. It is now normal for a teenager not to be able to read, to write, to count, to understand and explain simple things. It's a bold foreign policy to hate your neighbor. Today, the third largest disease after heart and lung problems is mental. Depression. Even nature is more crazy. It's called climate change. A science. No wonder, Elon Musk's bookings for the moon are overbooked. Lunacy, after all, is named after the moon. AI, the future, is accused of hallucination. Lies."