Keep your eyes open and keep your mind open.Fear wants obedience. Virtue wants silence.Thinking wants neither. I used to think I was choosing a side. I read what I was supposed to read. I repeated what sounded informed. I learned the tone, the cadence, the approved outrage. I told myself this was thinking. It was not. It was compliance with

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Let’s have an honest conversation. One that might make your parents squint, your titas raise an eyebrow, and your lolos whisper “baka komunista ‘yan.” Here goes:No, the Marcos era wasn’t heaven.It wasn’t a “golden age.”It wasn’t “the time when everything was cheap and peaceful.”It was a dictatorship, wrapped in propaganda, built on fear, and funded by your future. “But Everything

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