Syndrome, from the Greek word "concurrence," is a set or group of manifestations and symptoms that 'together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease' that could be physical or mental or both in combination.
The manifestations have been with them for the past 30 years after the fall of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. They are smart or cunning, brilliant, brimming with ideas, but for them to repeat these spiels again and again for years speak volumes of minds that refuse to listen to other arguments. Except, of course, their "never again" one-sided narrative of martial law, which is actually a monologue sponsored by the Yellow Media and the Aquino-Cojuangco oligarchy.
When a person is focused on one thing alone, on one thing alone, he or she does not hear other voices, other things vibrating and pulsating with life.
He or she does not know that there are flowers surrounding him or her.
They can not smell the fragrance and the beauty that surrounds them in all its glory.
They can not see poverty and squalor and oppression that have bedeviled the country since they dislodged what they call the dictator from Malacanang.
All they see is Marcos. Marcos in front of them. Marcos behind them. Marcos to the left of them. Marcos to the right of them. Marcos above them.
1.The past and the future are illusions; they don't exist in reality
2.The past should serve as illuminations for the future
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