Tatsulok is a song that tries to tell Totoy to dodge bullets, bombs, and the like and also to make a change in the triangle that has been plaguing the Philippines for so long ” it is a song of spreading awareness about what has always been there with all its obviousness and yet is so elusive unless recognition of its existence is made. However, the question is: how did those who revolted realize that there was, indeed, an inequality going on? Everything may have gone way back to the 300-year colonial rule of the Spanish ” we Filipinos have been oppressed by others for so long that we grew to be a country accustomed to having a passive, fearing nature that was explicitly shown to us by Rizal in his two novels. Having brought in things like Christianity and education that probably had fascinated our ancestors at first, may have led to feeling inferiorities or powerlessness from the others' displaying of their "superiority  and then, eventually, to being under them. This social structure passed on from one invader to another until its system had reached to our own kin ” with a selective number of individuals still seizing power over the rest and maintaining it. If we move on to Marcos' authoritarian regime that was able to spark a revolution that had "truly surprised  the world, however, Filipino activism is very much evident in the civil unrests, rallies, and the like that had occurred in a time in spite of the tension coming from the reigning government and the military. It is, in fact, an essential aspect of the song ” that of seeking, demanding even, of reforms/changes from those who are in the top. Tatsulok was written during the period of transition between the dictatorship rule and the Filipinos' newfound democracy ” still with plenty of resistances, oppositions in the form of coups d'etat by certain factions mainly from the military, communist or revolutionary movements that were armed unlike the nonviolent revolut