Stop Using "We've Got Hundreds Of Years Of Experience" In The Old System As An Excuse To Resist Constitutional Correction

While accepting change without question or thinking that change always means progress is bad business practice and not to mention a lack of critical thinking -- then again so is resisting change because you still need change to make improvements. Whether you like it or not -- you need some stuff that can be used for good or bad. You need a kitchen knife to help you prepare food, you need heat to help you cook food, you need hammers to do carpentry work, you need clean drinking water to survive, you need tap water to do some washing work, you need insecticides to fight off mosquitos -- all the while these stuff can also be misused and abused. The same goes for change -- it's something that can be misused and abused all the while you still need it to survive and progress at the same time. Sometimes, some things should stay as is while some things should change. 

It's a huge problem right now that you have people who refuse to change the super defective 1987 Constitution. They say, "But we have hundreds of years of experience in the unitary and presidential system." which is just bogus. Well, let's take a bit of a history lesson, shall we and if we go by the "hundreds of years" then I guess the Philippines should have stayed a colony of Spain or worse the archipelago will stay as a tribal system where all 7,107 islands were not yet even united as one country called the Philippines. Just think that also before a hundred years experience can be established -- it was always has to start with NO EXPERIENCE!

This is the problem behind their argument of saying "but we've got hundreds of years of experience here and zero experience for what's new". What if the Katipuneros and La Soldaridad just said, "Well, we've been used to the hundreds of years of experience under Spanish rule."? I don't think Dr. Jose P. Rizal would have done his propaganda to implement reforms towards how to rule a society better. The Katipuneros wouldn't have formed the Katipunan to resist the evil abuses of the Spanish colonizers which they have had hundreds of years of experience. While they have had NO EXPERIENCE yet in ruling their own sovereign country but they chose it over the hundreds of years of experience of being under Spanish rule.

The truth is sometimes what you have had for hundreds of years may not always be effective. A good example is a country having hundreds of years of dictatorship and zero experience in being a democracy. Would you rather be under a tyrannical regime because the country has had hundreds of years in experience of doing so or would you rather transition from a dictatorship (which lasted for hundreds of years) and replace it with a democracy where you had no experience at all? The answer would be it'd be better to move away from the dictatorship to democratic government even if there's zero experience in the latter.

I could use an example of people who used to be really poor or were born in the slums. I could use the example of two squatters living in Tondo, Manila. One squatter would choose to remain in the slums because he's used to the slums. The other may be used to the slums but has gotten too sick of it so he decided to work himself hard. Right now, the second squatter has zero experience in living in a decent house and eating decent food. But he's so sick of the results such as vomiting and the stench of the slums. What he does is he gets out of the slums and seeks for a decent neighborhood in which to settle in even if he has zero experience.

The question is no longer about having years of experience in one field and having zero experience in the other field -- but a question of whether something works or not regardless of how much experience you had in either field. It's just like what I experienced. It's like how a video game franchise makes some changes as they make people rethink the way they play the latest entry of the game. If a new concept fails then it should be rejected and if something old works better -- then improve on it for the better. That's how accepting and rejecting new and old ideas should be. Accept the new that does good while improving the old ideas to fit into the new ideals.