He being resurrected in this election, I want to write the
constructive story of Ferdinand Edralin Marcos
– the destructive story being
proudly proclaimed as definitive of the Marcos Legacy, shame
on those narrow-minded historians! Not to mention like-minded negative-thinking
people, including award-winning journalists and their ilks. They refuse to
acknowledge Marcos’ accomplishments!
(Marcos image[1] from
Britannica.com, negative-positive
image[2] from Shutterstock.com)
Marcos was a full-blooded Ilocano (FBI), his parents being from
Ilocos Norte, and so am I an FBI, my grandfather from Rosario, La Union. Ania’t
makunayo?
As my title says, “PH Presidential Campaign – Niggardly
Clever, Narrowly Critical, Negatively Creative!” Not
one of the 5 leading contenders – Ping
Lacson, Bongbong Marcos, Isko Moreno, Manny Pacquiao, and Leni Robredo – is campaigning on high
grounds. As a self-styled warrior writer for my country, especially for the
millions of poor farmers and fishers, I want to contribute to the insightful exchanges
with my critical and creative talents. Now then:
I declare
a different Marcos book is called
for! Critically fact-filled, creatively written – at 81, I am the senior one-man-band (OMB) to produce it.
If anyone will fund me, a digital OMB – writer, editor, photographer,
desktop publisher – I will produce a fact-filled & smart book in 100 days,
publish February 2022. Minimum: sangaribu
nga ribu.
The book, of 500 pages, will be on the positive contributions of Marcos to Philippine progress in culture
and community welfare. The book will stand by itself, an illuminating
informative throve as well as an inspiring intellectual thrust, neither
attempted by any historian Filipino or foreign.
Why
a new Marcos book? More than enough has been written on his bad side; my book
will be on his best side.
Personally, I have a debt of gratitude to Marcos, even if he
did not know me from Adam – it was his Presidential Decree, PD 607, signed 18
December 1974, that created the Forest Research Institute (FORI) that hired me
16 April 1975, and I became founding Editor
In Chief of FORI’s 3 publications: monthly Canopy, quarterly technical journal Sylvatrop, and quarterly popular magazine Habitat.
FORI became popular
nationally and internationally because of those media. In Habitat’s December
1980 issue appears my theory of Communication
for Development (ComDev). My blog ComDev continues my love affair with
millions of farmers on fields or hillsides. From print, I have gone on to
digital accomplishments. (See my Profile in my blog.) Without Marcos, where
would I be?
Science was one strong point of Marcos; he appreciated how
powerful it is in promoting the welfare of a people. So, among other institutions,
he created the National Science & Development Board (NSDB), now the Department of Science & Technology
(DoST); thus, it was DoST that first harnessed PH geothermal power to generate
electricity, from the Tiwi Hot Springs in Albay.
And
I’ve only just begun!@517
[2]https://www.shutterstock.com/search/positive+negative
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