Responding to Netizen's Comment

Netizen's Comment: I really like your story about Robin Padilla.  He was like Noah who was belittled and frowned by everyone when he build the ark.

In the Modern world, visionaries are always bombarded by mockery, especially these days when anyone can just say anything they want without having not to worry about how their comments broke their targets into pieces.

Response:

1.   I just want to know how you feel about these suggestions of possibly using cable cars as a viable way to solve traffic congestion knowing that the Duterte administration has been mulling over this and even the Dept of Transportation has made feasibility studies on how it can be done.

2.  This is quite a baptism of fire for the neophyte senator Robin Padilla when his suggestions were met with skepticism and hecklers enjoyed the free ride when the internet was bombarded with political memes, sneers, and jeers.

3.  Is taunting, deriding, insulting, and lampooning ... the new features of the ever-changing socmed milieu ...  and only the brave and the daring can share their ideas, conceptualize and plan ... and the faint-hearted will cower and cringe in fear of public humiliation and ignominy?

4.  Will the internet climate be as tolerant, permissive, and receptive to listening and discussing weird and unconventional ideas such as this one ... and not pin one down at the slightest provocation?

What I don't understand is why these visionaries have to experience this kind of travesty and ridicule ... the kind that pinches the soul and bruises egos and pride.

The way ordinary netizens speak in socmed they seemed self-entitled - the sense of superiority and cockiness is there and there is no remorse whatsoever with how they use their language.  Their one-liners were done in the spirit of fun ... if you were hurt in the process ... this is the price you have to pay for entering the inner sanctum.

It is such a pity society has evolved like this.