Land is Life. For Survival. Identity. Self-determination.

Social Contract.

I am not to talk about this political philosophical expression of John Locke’s activism. I was actually reading the philosophical foundation of psychology as part of our discussion for my Psych 206 class yesterday when I get fixated at the page of Locke. He had been dubbed as the founder of British Empiricism - that is everything we know are gained through our experiences - tabula rasa. It is actaully a reverberation of Aristotle’s blank slate of mind.

I first encountered the concept of Social contract when I was taking my Soc Sci 2 class - I really could not appreciate it. But social contract, in a nut shell, tells about the reciprocity of responsibility of the State and its constituents - that the State, or the government is ought to protect and care about its constituents whilst, the people should respect, participate and do their dues as citizens like paying taxes and abiding the constitution.

In the Philippines, the failure of the political system could not only be attributed to the corrupt system and the morally incapable leaders, perhaps, the apathy of the people to participate. Their pessimism toward it…it is reciprocal after all.