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I belong to something like 20 or so chat groups on Facebook, with members usually ranging from 5 to 10 thousand.

I say “something like 20 or so” because I don’t update myself of my status, and some groups don’t inform you. Famously, I’ve even been removed from a group that I created—by group admins that I appointed.

Anyway, somebody asked me today why I don’t post my recent articles on BENECO in these group’s pages.

Violating my own pledge not to write anything about BENECO anymore (during the peak of my disappointment with some MCO leaders) I have recently begun a series of posts giving my views on recent developments.

I can’t help it. I can’t bear to watch all that lying and manipulating and girding for selfish advancement without lifting a finger (or at least the proverbial writer’s pen) about it. Call it the “Gold Ore reflex,” a living out of its journalistic tradition to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Some people have urged me to post them for wider exposure, so that non-compromised MCO’s could at least have an idea what’s going on and—who knows—it might even motivate them into some form of action.

Others, as usual, question my motives—mainly because it threatens their own.

To all these concerns, I simply shrug my shoulders and think, I don’t care. I’m not advocating anything other than for people to INFORM THEMSELVES and, if they are convinced THEY care, to inform others.

I’m a teacher of law (NOT a professor—that is a very specific honorific conferred by an institution which is a precious rare investiture)—so what I do is TEACH.

It is up to my students, many of whom are now practising lawyers too, some even government prosecutors and judges—to apply what they learned in my class in the past.

I keep the same attitude in my Facebook posts. I discuss dry theory, I leave it up to people to apply it.

Of course there will always be some stupid factchecker out there who will nitpick. That’s the kind of idiot who will read a law textbook that says “A entered in a contract with B” and then proceed to investigate who “A” and “B” are!

Like I said, stupid.

One thing I can be personally proud of, however, is that no one can ever influence my content. I call it as I see it because I really don’t care which side is right or wrong. I only care that they both do not get away with lying to the people, through self-pontifications of their own virtue.

In my own experience dealing with fake advocates, the noisiest ones are usually the ones who prostitute their moral principles in the worst way, and protest the loudest about attacks to their shattered integrity.

But to be fair, I will not expose even the vilest of them using the forum of another. THAT’s why I only post in my wall.

What about informing “more” people? Although a humble number, at least 4,470 people follow me. If they believe in what I say, they will go out of their way to reproduce any revelations they somehow acquired from reading my articles.

If some of them happen to be genuine BENECO MCO’s who do not draw a salary from its nemesis, they may or may not “pass on” the knowledge as their contribution to resolving the crisis, by increasing the proportion of the public that understand the underlying issues involved BEYOND the slogans “Fight Ladta!” and “We power on!”

If they don’t, then WHAT else can they possibly be capable of doing to lend any kind of meaning to those empty slogans?

I often check out Meta’s page analytics and the statistical insights that it gives you. That’s how I know that for all BENECO-related articles I write, there’s a rather fixed sampling group of about 14,000 who consistently follow the series.

That’s a pitifully small group when you consider that there are supposed to be 138,000 member consumers.

But like I said, that does not concern me beyond my basic curiousity for reading stats. Spreading the news is not my obligation, only writing it is.

It also gives me my own opportunity to take my own reading of the “vital signs” in this public issue. And, so far, I can see that isolationism is still the most prevalent attitude. Most people would still be enlightened, but few will bother to enlighten others. In a typical post with, say, a hundred “likes”—only 2, maybe 3, would share the material forward.

So I guess it is really easier to just mouth the slogan, instead.*

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