WHILE the superpowers fight over spheres of influence and the right to dominate the weak, and Israel and Hamas try to extinguish each other over communal political rights, Filipinos get embroiled in controversy over what to remember and what to forget about their nation s recent past. President Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos Jr. (BBM) took the first step when he excluded the so-called EDSA revolution of February 1986 from the list of national holidays to be celebrated by Filipinos. To many of us, this is almost like abolishing Christmas.