We seek for change for there is none.  People will kill for power and for that there really can be no change.

It’s barely to next year and the political war in the country has begun.  Not a simple war of words but a war of weapons.  As we live in a more interconnected world, people don’t really care about others unless it’s a tragedy or an impending disaster arises.  People over in the north won’t care if there’s a war over in south as long as they don’t have any family or friends down there.  My neighbor doesn’t care if I listen to metal as long as I don’t turn up the volume that it disturbs the peace.  People like to be left alone to do their own thing.

People are also greedy and power hungry.  If they have the chance to earn more – they take it.  Most of the time, they will take short term gains as they are oblivious to the fact that long term progress will not affect their current lives.  Politics is the key to wealth and power to those who have no desire to serve the community.  Politicians, in a democracy or republic, are voted by the people to serve the people.  Serve the people… Yet those in power can use it for their own gains.  They corrupt the system and siphon taxes to their own pockets.

So if people don’t care and some people want power what do you do to solve it?  War for position in the southern part of the country has caused so many deaths.  Why not let the south leave?  Break apart the country of the Philippines, let the country of Mindanao be it’s own country.  People in the north won’t care.  Only people who think this is “unity” will care.  Yet the country never was united, even in the old times.  Before the Spanish came, each island was a different nation.  When the Spanish came, mostly the north was part of their rule and the south was an Islamic Sultanate.  This lasted even until after world war 2, the lands of the south was declared free by the government.

What if we let the south break apart from the north?  Let them have their own rules and lords.  Funny though, there wouldn’t be any war cause there won’t be any money since the government of the north won’t be spending cash to the south.  The ones fighting for political power won’t even bother then as there won’t be a government to receive money from.  Sure the south can form their own government, but their chance of wealth is severely diminished.

Let’s take it further – let’s break the north up.  Corruption comes due to the large bureaucracy.  Shrinking this fat system will create a smaller – small state based system where the lower government have more power.  More smaller government means the people can take control.  People over in the north say in Ilocos won’t care to say what happens in maybe Palawan.  With a smaller government, the problems of each state stays in each state.

A change in the system will bring change.  People don’t really change so change the system instead.