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Animal Farm

April 19, 2007

The easiest way to reclaim your self-esteem is to feed on another's. Fortunately, the world will never run out of inferior people—there will always be someone more pathetic than you are, someone less talented, someone weaker-willed. Does this sound mean? A pig named Napoleon once said: all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. It is mean, I guess, but it's also true.

That's something I've observed in the university. People are very spare with compliments even though they are deserved. I got a nasty feeling that if they say it, these words of admiration, their internal weighing scale tells them that their self-esteem lost weight. But lo! When it comes to criticisms, even though misplaced and unfounded, their generosity kicks into high gear.

UP students are superhuman. Let's accept that painful fact. These are the students who finished on top of their class in high school. These are students who just got slapped with the reality that they are not the hotshots that they thought they were. The more unfortunate ones, well, they just never get over the shock. The more adaptive ones, they find ways to feed on the unfortunates and regenerate the tissues of their self-worth.

Am I one of them?

Yes.

Are you?

Honesty is not the best policy. But in Animal Farm, you'll never learn how to walk on two hind legs if you don't know why you can't.

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Previous Comments

Indeed all animals are created equal. Unforntunately for others, they don’t know how to cope up with the “equality” of others, hence, they fall back to the lesser kind.

Thanks for the comment on my blog. Will link you up.

Posted by jho at April 19, 2007, 11:40 am

Animal farm could be summed up in this absolute truth.. we hate the people who are better than us but when we become those people, we hate the person we used to be.

Is UP that cutthroat? I just hope you stay true to your self regardless. The true revolutionaries of today, in the face of ever-quick changing pace rendering individuals into virtual automatons or zombies, are those who abhor change in the first place.

Now, who said that? It was Zizek, I think.

Posted by Pablo at April 19, 2007, 11:43 am

All animals have their own superiority, but they just don’t know it nor they can’t express it well. di tuloy halata.

and not everyone in UP graduated at the top of their highschool class. trust me on this. i’ve never been in top10 but i passed UP. di lang siguro ako magaling talaga pag sabay-sabay sa klase. but on my own, taking the exams on my own.. mejo magaling ako. kaya siguro ako nakapasa khet na di ako top10. gets ba?

Posted by tin-tin at April 19, 2007, 12:26 pm

jho: i’ll be linking you too! i had a good read from you.

pablo: UP is that cutthroat. everyone’s got a major ego over there and it would do one well to avoid stepping on any. also, on change. i would take you up on your quotation, or Zizek’s. IM me at yahoo, lizlanuzo.

Posted by lizette at April 19, 2007, 12:28 pm

do i still count in the “adaptive ones” category if i already graduated? lol

Posted by keysi at April 19, 2007, 1:18 pm

hm, yeah. because we’re evil, evil.

Posted by lizette at April 19, 2007, 1:27 pm

bwahaha! me? evil? =P

Posted by keysi at April 19, 2007, 1:44 pm

i’ve linked you na rin =)

Posted by keysi at April 19, 2007, 1:47 pm

and let me add that not all UP alumni are superhumans…
hahaha! some are well, I’ll just keep my musings to myself, hahahaha…

Posted by megan at April 19, 2007, 3:21 pm

some are quite stupid? true. i am making hasty generalizations all over the place, my bad!

Posted by lizette at April 19, 2007, 3:50 pm

Hmmm…

Posted by sweetperceptions at April 19, 2007, 9:56 pm

hm… I study at Philippine Science and I can relate to this. Combined with teenage minds, the situation can look bad. Others adopt to the mob-ocracy while others end up resorting to delinquency…