Whenever someone hands you a utopian vision and promises to deliver results in a silver platter, my advice is for you to better cast a cautious look rather than opening your arms to give the utopian a warm embrace.
Why? Let history’s lessons provide the lucid arguments.
The entire cabal of the world’s savage and brutal despots began by promising utopian visions, the high heavens included. Immediately after they attained power, however, their dreams wreak havoc and poured nightmares upon nightmares upon their blighted people. Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Mao and Castro; to name just a few. Oops, I almost forgot the one nearest to home, Pol Tot’s genocidal Khmer Rouge which claimed a third of Cambodia’s people.
Then again, we have had our own version here in the not so shiny pearl of the orient. Marcos’ ‘New Society’ ushered in and institutionalized brutality into the Filipino mindset, albeit in a less than spectacular scale compared to his counterparts. I’d say the CPP-NPA purges in the 80s and 90s may qualify as well.
A question begs to be asked.
How come dreams for heaven on earth end up perpetuating a regime of terror and brutality?
The answer is plain and simple. Human nature. Despite recent attempts by postmodern thinkers and their poststructuralist comrades to denigrate human nature as nothing more than a social and cultural construction, it rears its head day in and day out. All utopian revolutions are bound to fail inasmuch as human nature is a two-sided coin. Volition or free will always play an integral part on how societies and people turn out to be. Every utopian can easily don a new cap and become a despot anytime he finds his utopian dreams as difficult and unattainable.
Thus, my word of advice is simple. Never expect your deliverance on a single person. Worse, never give absolute power to a utopian, lest, you give him the keys to ruin your life and everyone else’s for that matter.
Never play around with human nature.
Finally, let me say emphatically that Money Villar is a kleptocratic utopian.
Whoa.
Bah humbug!
Namimilosopiyang Pinoy 
the only way for villar to make me consider voting for him is by making him tell the people how exactly he plans to eliminate poverty. never mind his potential for becoming the biggest plunderer; if he somehow manages to come up with a clear, comprehensive, convincing outline for his utopian plan, then.. I might consider giving him a shot, since at least he’ll have his hands tied to the execution of his master plan. if he fails, a public execution by hanging should be good enough for him. joke.
but then again.. I don’t think he HAS a plan, other than filling up his swimming pool with money sapped from the people’s taxes. so if villar really wants to build up his credibility, then I say enough of mindless slogans and instead make him tell us what exactly he means by ‘eliminating poverty’.
plan? i guess he is simply being Machiavellian, that is; he seeks to acquire power, retain power and acquire more power. I’m thinking of a resurrected Marcos and its sending shivers through my spine.
villar’s stand on significant issues (ie RH bill, population control, environment) are still (on purpose?) unclear. what really bothers me is the astronomical spending he is doing right now! if my hunch is right, he’s now spent about half a billion’s worth of ads, shirts, campaign paraphernalia, etc. (remember the house and lot he gave at Wowowee? ^^,)
i would say somewhere near 700 million. a big spender is a potential plunderer
“How come dreams for heaven on earth end up perpetuating a regime of terror and brutality?”
call me romantic (a fool even), but, personally, because with all the knowledge we gain, with all our pre-occupation with worldly things, sometimes disguised as concern for the other, we forget that the goal of “our dreams for heaven on earth” is centered (or supposed to be centered?) on God, a God of love, who is patient and kind, never jealous or envoius, never rude or selfish…..
coz utopians have to master their own demons first. otherwise, they become the very evil they seek to slay.
ooo, didn’t notice the reply before… yep! utopians should go through a psychiatrist first before conquering the world, hehehe