The greatest tragedies in the Philippines are not how corrupt the government is or how devastating the natural calamities that have struck the nation.
It is the utter absense of critical thinking & the indifference of the Filipino people that no matter how screwed up the country is by blatantly corrupt & deceitful government officials, they seem to tolerate it.
People from other nations have made it a point to vehemently exercise their right & might over the government.
But for Filipinos, despite the glaring evidence of corrutpion of its public officials, a minority would moan & groan about it, some would actually take action but will ulimately fail because the vast majority are either too absorbed by their own affairs or are just fighting their way just to have some food on their tables.
This for me is why the Philippines will never get out of its 3rd world status.