Editor’s Note

Over the past five months, the vaccine-fixated government had been exploiting the motherland to breastfeed its citizens with the belief that “this, too, shall pass” that some managed to have a firm grasp and is sucking well onto these false hopes. Such illusion of hopes distorts our perception of resiliency and reality that while we put on our vivid smiles in times of catastrophe, we lost the ability to perceive the putative reality. Unknowingly, we have become sacrificial lambs on our own doorstep. The onslaught of COVID-19 and the paradigm of the New Normal made black lies which lead us to believe that all these trial and error methods are for our own benefit to whitewash government’s ineffectiveness and inefficiency. While we were sitting on the couch in our living room just watching the news about virus-related death toll, we never suspected our futile government officials as perpetrators. While we were asleep, the thieves have taken their seats in the government. While we struggle to put food on our table, a killing spree banquet has been held in the dark alleys. And while we cry for help, laughter burbled in the throat of those who are in power. As you would have thought, we have let a drunken man lead this nation with his fake fatherly eyes of mercy.

To the youth, it is not enough to just pray for your country. As much as we wish our fellowmen who lost their lives to coronavirus to rest in peace, we should not allow the government’s inadequacy to rest peacefully and be free of liability. We may have won wars and survived far too many environmental, political, and social upheavals in history but the difference between those epochs and ours is that this fight is now ours to overcome or to endure. Choose to stand for those who cannot stand for themselves, to voice out those who cannot speak for themselves, and to hear out those who were left unheard. Don’t betray the sick, the dead, and the exhausted. At the heart of it all is the belief that this too shall not pass. Not in our generation.

As The BEACON welcomes the new members of the publication like missing puzzle pieces found and gathered together to patch the holes of our lighthouse, we dream to give the Ateneo community a louder voice and a brighter light during this difficult time of our lives. As the voice of the student body, The Publication would need more of your involvement because we want to deliver stories that would best serve your interest. Ignited by the lighthouse that serves as the guiding light to navigate contemporary issues that bring the lofty ideals of the publication to empower the informed, we being the lighthouse keepers, will continue to keep our lamp lit in the face of most pressing issues.

SHARMAINE G. CANAMA

The BEACON Publications

Editor-in-Chief