Deconstructed (Finals Editorial)

Deconstructed

A common mindset of everyone: scholars are
gifted, scholars are remarkably intelligent people. The reputation is big, yet
too risky to satisfy – especially if a student is deconstructed inside-out.

Young
thinkers of today are comprised of variety of students, including the scholars.
And if you say scholar, there’s always a school that first pops out from
everybody’s head – and yes, it is, our ever-loved, University of the Philippines.
That UPian’s always dominate the other:
UP dito, others doon as they say it.

But,
like everything else, being a UPian has its price; and that is the problem of
these scholars of the nation, they do not inculcate in their minds the value of
being branded as a UPian.

Because
of their high respect for their own crowd and their unleveled intelligence, UPians tend to be unreasonable, egoistic,
and pathetic students; or others call it as deconstructed people inside-out.
Yes, they have this culture where they are united as one, but having such
so-called brilliant minds is enough!
The nation does not need future leaders who are intolerant.

Last
September 17 of this year, a grand gathering was put up by the Public Relations
Society of the Philippines
to showcase the different school’s pride on the field of Public Relations. It
was a Grand Prix, where participating students from different schools are about
to present a PR Campaign about reading in San Mateo,
somewhere in Mindanao. Among 19 schools who
passed their contest pieces, five among the 19 were chosen to present their
work in public, they are the Colegio De San Juan De Letran, University of Asia
and the Pacific, University of the Philippines – Manila, University of the
Philippines – Diliman, and Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, where PLM happens
to be the defending champion from the previous year’s Grand Prix. And of course
as expected, their grand battle was hotly controversial.

Though
it was evident, both in the paper work and creannovative presentation, that PLM
still deserved the first place, the scholars of Atienza were magnanimous even
in defeat. But the question here is not whether who should have won, but what
on earth was the treatment of the four other schools towards PLM? It was like
having Voltes V in four major parts instead of five against the mildness of
Cinderella. Still, four against one is unfair. PLMayers were not treated well
by the joined forces of the four other schools – and yes, it was lead by the
UPians, their Steve Armstrong. The students of Letran and UA&P did not even
realize that only UPians benefited from what they’ve done to PLM. Why? Do they
have the name? Are they branded the way UPians are branded? No, they’re not!

In
this context, UPians did not only stoop down from their usual expected level, but also reflected the rotting
system inside the four corners of both their classroom and brain. Likewise,
following such gruesome acts were not tolerable for Letran and UA&P
students as well, for it only showed their low capacity of standing on their
own and making a name out of their own efforts. Instead of joining forces and
competing unfairly with PLM, those others
should have at least considered that they are the pride of their school, and
that they solely carry their school’s epitome.

Now,
can we say that these are the future leaders of this third-world country?
Indeed, they are all considered deconstructed people, inside-out. No doubt
about it.