When Rome is burning

The Manila Times 31 Aug Philippines

A FLOOD does not merely expose clogged drains. It exposes clogged consciences. When roads disappear under brown water, families sleep on school floors, and workers see wages vanish with the rain, the country does not need leaders who can explain themselves afterwards. It needs leaders who know, in the moment, what decency requires. That is why the old image of Nero fiddling while Rome burned still

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