PEPE seeking PILAR

10/1/2022

This is not a dating ad as in male seeking female, man seeking woman, or boy seeking girl.

This is a partnership in the making, an active and innovative community and civic engagement.

This is a truth-seeking enterprise.

Google the phrase truth seeking and you’ll find the concept we are looking for in understanding and comprehending the current situation or the context we are in.

Take this one: Truthseeking is the habit of always desiring the best possible understanding of any given situation; it is following reasons and evidence wherever they may lead, even if they lead one to question cherished beliefs. (Note: it is a one-word noun, not two words or hyphenated). (Source: Truthseeking - Insight Assessment)

How about this one from Wikipedia: Truth-seeking processes allow societies to examine and come to grips with past crimes and atrocities and prevent their future repetition. Truth-seeking often occurs in societies emerging from a period of prolonged conflict or authoritarian rule.[1] The most famous example to date is the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, although many other examples also exist. Most commonly these are carried out by official truth and reconciliation commissions as a form of restorative justice, but there are other mechanisms as well.

Similarly, Truth seeking measures aim to encourage societies to develop and agree upon a shared history or collective memory of a period of widespread conflict or violence. They may also provide an opportunity for victims to tell their stories and to be heard in an official forum. These processes may help societies understand the scale and impact of what has occurred.

The best is this one: Truth-seeking is the process of finding and evaluating information that deepens our understanding of the world around us. It includes identifying information and distinguishing what is fact from what is fiction or opinion and critically assessing the quality of our data, and also using and applying that information in a way that prioritizes fairness, honesty and inclusivity.

Seeking truth means being willing to do the hard work—hard work in time, energy, or emotion—to critically assess our preconceptions and select the most reliable sources of data to inform our beliefs. (Source: Truth-seeking - Principled Innovation™ (asu.edu)

My “Pilar seeking Pepe” is about Popular Initiative in Learning and Accessing Resources, which I named PILAR. PEPE was inspired by the People Power Revolution of 1986. His name PEPE - Popular Education for People’s Empowerment - was a result of two national conferences of community and progressive educators who survived and grew even under a Marcos Martial Law and repressive regime but nevertheless foresaw the challenges under a restored elite democracy but with the remnants and turncoats of the deposed regime.

Looking back, PEPE grew leaps and bounds among civil society (i.e NGOs and POs) but it was not sustained and expanded to most of the Filipino people. The fact that our people are easy prey to fake news and historical fallacies and revisionism, and are seduced by the so-called “golden age” under Marcos SR, which factored in the return of Marcos JR to Malacañang.

PEPE without PILAR will not thrive and prosper. In order for PEPE to realize its fullest potential and development, PILAR should be first and foremost, and always be there.

What is in our fate (as a nation) that women have succeeded and continue to challenge despotic and corrupt men?

I dedicate my homepage to PILAR. It is a repository of my published and unpublished works. It also serves as my portfolio, and a gateway to my consultancy and services on demand.

My homepage is my home and homebase in cyberspace, internet communities and social media.

Popular in PILAR and PEPE does not only mean people, but in “appealing to the general public,” “suited to or within the means of ordinary people” and “appealing to or comprehensible to the layman.”

Let us welcome PILAR in our life.