Is there a connection between Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s “Goddam America” sermon and U.P. (University of the Philippines) journalism professor Luis Teodoro’s Freudian slip-ups (he has counseled fellow journalists to blog to rub off their “virtues” on bloggers) or Australian-based “heckler” BenignO’s raves on Filipinos’ penchant for hollow symbolisms?
“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 [...]
The Folly of Economic Dependence On Foreign Employment
April 25, 2008 By 2 Comments
Which does more damage to a child during his/her formative years, the lack of cash or the non-presence of one or even both parents because he/she or they are working overseas?
Every example of the *humblest* of Filipinos being able to extricate themselves from poverty by sheer hard work and discipline *within our islands* highlights the folly and destructiveness of our easy-way-out approach to national development by lionising OFWs as “heroes”.
Power Not by Desire, But By Right
April 22, 2008 By 6 Comments
Elliot S. Maggin penned in 1997: “Our proper response to the inexorable march of progress that has brought us to this place and time in the history of civilization is to find a way to confront it responsibly. Not modestly. Not unself-consicously. Not with faith in a power greater than ours to descend from the [...]
import intelligence, guts
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Empower Tomorrow
April 21, 2008 By 10 Comments
I believe there should be two fundamental beliefs that a new kind of political party ought to have. First, this party must be accountable only to future generations. Second, it must value human dignity and rights. Why future generations? Because everything is about the future. Everything has repercussions that future generations will face. And if [...]
Because We Can Change the Dynamics of the Game
April 19, 2008 By 25 Comments
Because We Can
April 17, 2008 By 38 Comments
“WTF!?!” Comes to mind when something like this mindless thing keeps coming out. We go about this, over and fucking over and over.
YOU want this country to be FUCKING better? Well, IT AIN’T GONNA if we’re going to keep on escalating WAR between ourselves or thinking CRAP.
Before anybody go all high and mighty and be personal: I’m NOT at all saying, let bygones be bygones BUT our WOUNDED PRIDE, OUR PROBLEM with Gloria— isn’t about her or her family. Remove their names and it will be somebody else betraying us over. The cycle will go on, and on, like an Evil Energizer Bunny.
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