From the campaign spiels of Mr. Roxas, the leading members of the business community get the equivalent of opera’s Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, a political presentation so exhilarating to the business people that can’t help but treat Mr. Roxas like a rock star. Mr. Roxas is their true prophet, the wet dream of their quarterly earnings and speaking in the jargon that animates their daily conversation.

But as in many things blissful, there is always a rub. To the less gilded world outside, to ordinary Joes like my neighbors and I, Mr. Roxas’ spiels are largely nonsense. Concerned with only one thing – basic survival and specifics such as food, medicine and shelter – Davos and MBC talk is just useless blabber to us.

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