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 1872 Cavite Mutiny Could Have Been Avoided if Reports Were More Truthful,

and Factual

1872 Cavite mutiny is one of the most important topics, and events in the

history that teachers should discuss, or teach, even today’s era; in digital age.

Moreover, internet could manipulate us on searching different information if we

do not discern, or weigh information from different sources. In the Cavite mutiny’s

case, Governor General Rafael Izquierdo y Gutierrez’s accusation that Fr.

Mariano Gomez, Fr. Jose Burgoz, and Fr. Jacinto Zamora, or known as

GOMBURZA, instigated the said mutiny, and afterward, ordered the execution of

the three secular priests.

Contemporary period underwent thereupon history. 1872 Cavite mutiny

shows relevance today in the academe, or to those who study history. The said

mutiny will teach us to comb, and delve the technical cause of the mutiny on

who instigated it, and why that person initiated it. Henceforth, this teaches us to

undergo a critical observation about the issue in an intricate way.

Montero, and Izquierdo abolished the exemption of privileges of Cavite

workers from forced labor, and non-payment of tributes that caused the

revolution of which Sgt. Fernando La Madrid and his co-soldiers belonged. On the

one hand, a district in Sampaloc, Maynila celebrated a feast of the Virgin of

Loreto, the feast celebrated with the usual fireworks display. Two People in Cavite

mistook the fireworks as a sign for the attack, and Sgt. Fernando La Madrid led
the mutiny, and other mutineers. They seized the Fort, and killed the Spanish

officers. The Spanish government in Manila accumulated, and sent troops under

General Felipe Ginoves to recover the Fort. The regiment quelled the besieged

mutiny, killed many mutineers including Sgt. Fernando La Madrid, and sentenced

others to death, or forced labor. Consequently, Governor General Rafael

Izquierdo y Gutierrez used the mutiny to implicate the GOMBURZA, and other

notable Filipino intellectuals for their liberal learnings. People, then, knew that

General Rafael Izquierdo y Gutierrez as an iron-fisted leader that led to

incarceration, banishment, execution of Filipino professionals, intellectuals,

businessmen, and priests such as GOMBURZA to garrote at Bagumbayan.

Historical accounts that corroborated the 1872 Cavite mutiny show

supporting evidences, and no chances of falsifiability. Amassing, and/or

discerning information before jumping to conclusion shows that we have the skills

of weighing evidences to find the veracity of an event such as 1872 Cavite

mutiny. Besides, corroboration teaches us to find, and confirm supporting

evidences, and theory.

1872 Cavite mutiny is a good topic in history. It teaches us to ask, and find the

cause of the mutiny: why did 1872 Cavite mutiny transpire?; and why did Sgt.

Fernando La Madrid instigate, and initiate it? Digital age is a complex period that

may show ambiguity to the different information. In 21st century, it suggests that

critical thinking, and weighing information are valuable things to have. Our duties
 as students, and/or mass is: to gather, weigh, and discern information in

accordance with its principles before jumping to the conclusion; and corroborate

what we gathered, just like in Cavite mutiny, we gathered information from

different sources to show the supporting evidences, and corroborate to find the

veracity of the said event.

21st century implies that critical thinking is one of the paramount things we

should have. It is important to have critical thinking in this age because our

chances of gullibility, or credulity may down. Therefore, cognizance in the 21st

century shows relevance in this world full of information with uncertainties.

What corroborated this position is the quality of being cognizant.

Cognizance’s synonymity to critical thinking is awareness, and what awareness

does is to lower the chances of our gullibility, or credulity to circumvent misleading

information even in the case of 1872 Cavite mutiny on what transpired the certain

event, due to misconstruing the usual fireworks as an instigation for attacking.

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