Indolent people must not be helped

Indolent people must not be helped

King Mark B. Obina

    January 21, 2019

What is Indolent People?

        Indolent is define as slow or lazy. Wanting to avoid activity or exertion. lazy. They were indolent and addicted to a life of pleasure.

According to Jose Rizal he defends the filipinos by saying that they are not indolent by nature because in fact, even before the arrival of spaniards, filipinos have been engaged in economic activities such us agriculture and trade. Indolence therefore has more deeply rooted causes such as abuse and discrimination, inaction of the government, rampant corruption and red tape wrong doctrines of the church and wrong examples for some spaniards who lead lives indolence which ultimately led to the deterioration of filipino values. In the end, Rizal sums up the main causes of indolence to the limited training and education filipino natives and receive and to the lack of national sentiment and unity among them. Education and liberty, according to Rizal, would be the cure to filipino indolence.

The Indolence of the Filipinos is a study of the causes why the people did not, as was said, work hard during the Spanish regime.  Rizal pointed out that long before the coming of the Spaniards, the Filipinos were industrious and hardworking.  The Spanish reign brought about a decline in economic activities because of certain causes:

Another thing that we might add that had caused this indolence, is the lack of unity among the Filipino people.  In the absence of unity and oneness, the people did not have the power to fight the hostile attacks of the government and of the other forces of society.  There would also be no voice, no leader, to sow progress and to cultivate it, so that it may be reaped in due time.  In such a condition, the Philippines remained a country that was lifeless, dead, simply existing and not living.  As Rizal stated in conclusion, “a man in the Philippines is an individual; he is not merely a citizen of a country.”

I agree that indolent people must not be helped because we are all know that as a human being we have the ability to do our responsibility, to work, and to do what ever we wanted to do. therefore they must work with their self. We don't have to judge them instead we have to inspire them towards their progress.

Reference;

http://thelifeandworksofrizal.blogspot.com/2011/08/indolence-of-filipinos-summary-and.html

https://www.scribd.com/doc/64661685/The-Indolence-of-the-Filipinos-by-Dr-Jose-Rizal-Detailed-and-Complete

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/indolent