Blogging for life

I feel freer when blogging. My mind runs so fast, that my fingers can't keep up with the its thoughts. But really now, writing actually is a habit which one can't shake off anymore once one has started it. What is funny though is that people usually say, I am too political. Too radical?
Not really. Others are more radical than I am, like JM who even writes his polemics in big bold fonts.

But what can make a person be political or radical? It is nothing more than one's lived life. I live in a country where cruelty has become very subtle in terms of oppressing, suppressing one's rights -- like creating noise to destabilize or make the surroundings noisy and not conducive to thinking; where house helpers become tools for oppression, and have been trained to appear dedma* to charges of harassment; where even simple recycle carts are made to appear in time for my departure from the gate of my house, or when passersby suddenly blow their cigarette smoke while I am walking along a street, then I can only be political in my writings.

As a writer, I need a quiet place, surroundings so I can compose music, write lyrics and articles. But unfortunately, I do not always have that luxury of a peaceful setting for my ideas to spring forth everytime I sit down to write or face my music keyboard.

WE live in an age of knowing who our enemies are, who should be dislodged from power, who should be made accountable for all the killings of media people and other extra judicial killings. WE live in an age where rallyists are stopped from entering MetroManila in order to show that demonstrations against an evil regime will not look too popular and big.

WE live in an age where the priests love to be more Vaticanos than Filipinos so they stop short of calling for the resignation and stepping down from power of the illegal occupant of Malacanang.

WE live in an age where writing is a dangerous preoccupation; where to show political relevance in one's art is a crime that deserves narrowing down of options to live and survive in this society.

Those are the reasons why I am a political writer.

*sort of unknowing