[OPINION] Community pantries are 'bulletproof'
Apr 23, 2021 1:01 PM PHT
John Molo
In the movie adaptation of
V for Vendetta, the hero (V) was a masked vigilante prone to Shakespearean outbursts. In his final confrontation with the “evil” commander of the State forces (Mr. Creedy), V was shot several times, yet remained standing. In response to a shocked Creedy, V uttered one of the movie’s most memorable lines:
“Beneath this mask there is more than flesh, beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.”
The past few days witnessed the emergence of one such idea. The Maginhawa Community Pantry sprung from the simple efforts of one lady – Patricia Non. It was a simple idea, one so pure that by now a thousand politicians and PR managers must be killing themselves for not doing it earlier. “Take what you need. Give what you can.” In these simple words lay the beauty of Ms. Non’s idea. It was bayanihan given life. It was the Gospel given form. It was the tenet of every religion known to civilized society.