Clean up the trash. Upgrade the sewage system. Pick up your trash. Don’t throw plastic into the rivers. Rationally apply Urban Planning. Enough of “spot zoning”. Don’t vote bozos into Congress. Vote for bozos who provide winning solutions and demonstrated these in the past – not because they are “winnable”. Everything that can go wrong, [...]
Government by the people
May 8, 2009 By 8 Comments
(This rather lengthy commentary is a bit dated; it’s being crossposted and shared with FV only because it’s deemed quite relevant to the ramblings that Manny Pacquiao, the world’s most famous boxer today, is again getting ready to rumble in Philippine politics.) “Why (do) movie actors get elected” by the “average Filipino voters”? Prof. Randy [...]
Resentment and Cultural Oppression
January 2, 2009 By 14 Comments
The French word ressentiment which translates to the English word “resentment” literally means to “feel again.” Doomed to repetition, resentment towards this society’s emptied culture and cyclical politics can be at times overwhelming. Many have found the solution to this often crippling frustration. To relieve oneself of ressentiment one must deaden feeling. And so here [...]
The quadrilingual Pinoy
November 17, 2008 By 17 Comments
Put a Caption to This Picture, Southern Style
October 26, 2008 By 6 Comments
Spotted at General Santos City, just before the Second Mindanao Bloggers Summit:
A layman’s perspective of the Church and the mess she is in.
June 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
A while ago I listened to a progressive-minded and brilliant young member of the Catholic clergy, Rev. Msgr. Gerardo O. Santos of the Archdiocese of Manila, talk about the role of the Church in Philippine governance at a forum organized by the Center for Philippine Futuristics at the Asian Institute of Management in Makati City. [...]
“The Philippines” – a meaningless concept
May 5, 2008 By 24 Comments
I read Marck’s Tyranny and the Image with interest, specifically when it came to the passage: “politics in this country is not a “personality cult,” but a “cult of imagery”. I thought, well, in fairness to Pinoy society (and I’m a bit out-of-character here), the power of images had been demonstrated in so many forms [...]
The Philippines’ inconvenient truth
May 2, 2008 By 19 Comments
I checked out mlq3′s latest blog entry A Federalist appeal and am again reminded of the remarkable amount of debate going on about forms of government in general — specifically what form is best for Pinoy society. I maintain — consistent to my usual simplistic take on Pinoy society — that the key to Pinoy [...]
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