Native Dialect

I agree wholeheartedly with the author’s view that, while we should cherish and treasure our native dialect, be it any of the myriad spoken in our country (in our case, Ilocano), it would by no means be the blanket solution to the current pitiable plight of the Filipino. It is wrong to attribute the correct and widespread utilization of one’s native tongue as an answer to society’s problems, particularly those brought about by maladjusted politics that seems to be the norm here in the Philippines. The Department of Education should confine its campaign for Mother Language Education to matters of the academic sector, and refrain from dipping its finger into the socio-political pie with talks of “totalitarians” and “democracy” and “social justice”. All the Dep Ed would get is a smelly finger, because that pie is quite frankly, nasty and inedible, what with the people in power performing all known waste-disposal bodily functions all over it.
The author goes on to say that it is not language that is broken, but the person. I would beg to disagree, though I don’t like begging too much. There’s nothing wrong with an individual person. A person is smart, capable of rational decision, and as the author said, by nature democratic and socially just. That’s all well and good. Take as an example one reasonably sensible person in a theater that’s on fire. He/ she wouldn’t have any problems getting out whatsoever, right? Right. Now, say you have thirty people in the flaming theater. Now you got people panicking, stampeding, pushing each other, stepping on each other’s noses, toes, private parts, you name it. People are stupid, irrational, panicky, and as any politician will tell you, gullible. And it doesn’t matter if they’re screaming or praying in Ilocano, Tagalog, English, Aramaic, etc.; they will still race each other for that Fire Exit, and say to hell with your nose, toes, or private parts. We as a people need to learn to change as a society, and not as individuals.
And to the author, it would have been nice if he at least quoted something in Ilocano. You, sir, took pains in writing in Ilocano, and then you go on and quote Nietzsche at the end. It just seems inappropriate.