Before I go to Sierra Madre to fraternize with the masses (I always do that every week-end), I cannot but write about what Nicanor Perlas said yesterday. Perlas admonished trapos from using “New Politics” or “Bagong Pulitika”, in their campaign speeches. Almost everybody says he’s new, says Perlas. And Perlas claims that this tagline is his alone.
Let me again pose this question–what really is “new politics” or this term that we hear–”Bagong Pinoy”? What is so “new” that we Filipinos say it is really “new”? In my book, a thing is “new” when no one has it, except the one who claims the thing. What is new in Philippine politics? Is it campaigning with a shoe-string budget, that makes one the IP owner of this term “bagong pulitika”?
And for those who use the term “Bagong Pinoy”, what is so new about them that justifies or makes them bear that honor or distinction of being “New Pinoys”? For all I know, these bagong Pinoys are those who live and work abroad. They bear new knowledge. They are the new Pinoy species.
Why do I say this? Simple. Bagong Pinoy, for me, is someone who already improved himself, who uses knowledge as a growth catalyst and shares this knowledge for both horizontal and vertical expansion.
And what is bagong pulitika except those who say it mean cheaper ways of campaigning, or having an anti-trapo or anti-graft stance. That, for me, is nowhere near the interpretation of new politics. Is new politics dependent on morality or ethics? If that is so, then, it is not new. Since the time of Socrates, people have been discussing the important influence of ethics in politics. In the Philippines, the very first persons who associated right conduct with political acts were the millenarians who revolted against the Spaniards.
If “new politics” mean New Rectos, new Ninoys, new Tanadas and new Dioknos, that is not new. These martyrs were never the faces of “new politics” but frankly, ”moderates” even in their times.
Those who are running now, no one can definitely say they offer new politics simply because they subscribe to the anti-graft, pro-poor stance which, really, has been the slogans that we all hear since this country became a Republik.
‘New Politics” for me, is still a mile away. There is no new pinoy out there campaigning his heart out, no one deserving of the title “new face in Philippine politics”. Most, if not all, are, in some ways, involved in the mess that we are in, even the likes of Ocampo, Masa or Hontiveros. And even Atty. Alex Lacson who claims to represent Bagong Pinoy or Bagong Istorya, there’s nothing new in what he is saying, but we give him some points for trying to define it for us.
For me, bagong istorya is a blank piece of paper. While Bagong pinoy is, at best, a faceless and formless concept which we are still not yet ready to define.
The evident thing in all of these is really, introduce an ideology that appeals to everybody without the intellectual baggages of the West and those of the East, something purely Pinoy and acutely Pilipino.
And to start it all up, we don’t even know what Pinoy or Filipino really means except to say that we were named after a sickly Spanish king.
Popularity: 1% [?]
“what really is …or this term that we hear–”Bagong Pinoy”?
In order not to re-invent the wheel, we could go back to Jose Rizals’ The Indolence of the Filipinos.
Maybe it was written in a different time frame, but the song remains the same: The key to Pinoy empowerment—
Education and National Sentiment of Unity
Maybe this one is a start.
To be an Anti-Pinoy, is to expose all the wrong doing of our government elect sa Pinas. But, we are hardly excepted by the any Pinoy, ano ba ang Bagong-Pinoy?
Pinoy-in-Pinas, wake up to your Bagong-Pulitika. Or else, nasa Lumang Buhay parin kayo dyan sa Pinas…!
Then suddenly, to wake up the next morning after the election, still, purong “Utak ng Tilapia” parin…[...]!
That’s the published ideology. What I see is criticism beyond government and to the actually pinoy themselves proving that Anti-pinoy is living on an ideology of lies and deceit. What they publish is different from what they actually do.
Pinoys overseas wake up, and look beyond main stream media and don’t appease your guilt with negative propaganda.
Edward,
Your way too late, PGMA already gave you “Lies and Deceit.”
Kayong mga anti-pinoy na nasa abroad, you are nothing but anti-pinoy, you live up to your name that you gave yourself, you are more white than the whites even if your color is still brown, if you think that your people is utak-tilapia then your are also utak-tilapia, akala ninyo maganda bahay ninyo diyan sa merika, you pride in yourself there being called grease monkeys by the natives your adored for their white color which you aped by using soap called ‘likas-papaya’, hehehe.
Bert,
I have made some stupid decision (Utak ng Tilapia). But also, I was able to comprehend and contemplate for a better lifestyle.
Bert. I am, a much “Proud Pinoy,” as you are! As for my Americans friends, they love the cultures of the Pilipinos. How they wish, to live and retire, “in the island I born into” Philippines.
Never been called “Grease Monkeys” “Ass Hole” yes!
Mario, I always see your “Utak Tilapia” label. What do you mean by this? I know the tilapia hides its eggs in its mouth to protect them from rapacious fish.
macapili,
Let me retort back at you. How wonderful the Tilapia takes cares of its fry and, the ability to defend them from the predators. To avoid it, from being eaten.
Now, my question to you, “what if, the Pilipinos allow or even vote for Gloria Macapagal Arroyo into Congress, what do you think, the consequences are?“ Haven’t the Pilipinos learned from the past history, not alone listen to PGMA again.
I’ll let you finish the conclusion…[...]
Gloria is a cacique and for sure she will be voted by the alipins.
Mario, you did not answer my question. Seriously, what do you mean by “Utak ng Tilapia.”
macapili,
What I am saying about “Utak ng Tilapia” if our own people do not open their eyes to what’s happening with our own government. We are doom from it graps of evil doing. Liberty, a blessing so great and so desirable that when it is lost all evils follow thereafter, and even the blessings that remain lose taste and savor because of their corruption by servitude. As for Gloria, how can you share your knowledge to the people of our Nation? So that mistake(s) will never happen again.
Mario, ok, I got you. There are many like you who are becoming very impatient and angry and are about to give up. But there are also those who are still clinging to that last thread of hope for peaceful change. Give this country one last shot at the elections and let’s see what happens.
macapili,
Salamat. I hope you are not offended by my judicious commentaries.
Kayong mga anti-pinoy sa merika, you are not the new ‘Bagong Filipino’, kayo ang mga “Bagong Markano”, ahayhehehe.
Ang mga nakakabwisit, yung mga “bagong Filipino” na purke naranasan nila mag negosyo sa ibang bansa gusto nila ganoon din ka simple sa Pilipinas, buti nga. E ano ngayon kung importante ang oras niyo? dito walang kwenta ang oras. Kung sa ibang bansa ilang oras niyo lang nakukuha yang business permit, building permit etc.. dito hindi uubra yan. Bakit may connection ka ba? wala, e ang lagay eh, so sorry nalang kayo. Ipagkalat niyo nalang sa mga kaibigan niyo sa ibang bansa nalang sila pumunta
Wait, can I please clarify, Bert? Why r we talking about the antipinoys nanaman here? Is that what Ricky Rivera’s blog above is referring to? Sorry, these terms (bagong pinoy) r so vague kasi. Another question: what exactly is meant by pinoy-in-pinas?
I would hope not all Pinoys abroad r to be judged by Benjamin Kritz and Bong Vicente naman! I’m in Pinas now but I do know a lot of decent folks in the US who help with Gawad Kalinga and other good national/international NGOs here in Pinas. Many helped a lot with the Ondoy relief and r working on alternative energies, etc. The Bayan USA group is very vocal in terms of human rights, and was instrumental in bringing up Melissa Roxas’s case before the US government. NAAFA tries to generate funds for philanthropic projects, while NAFCON does a lot for domestics, TNTs, nurses and Pinoys in jail. Migrante has helped workers in the Mid-East in particular, particularly those who end up on death row. Those in the UN do a lot in terms of development, and were instrumental in getting the US to agree to tie some of its military aid to Pinas to human rights. They all have different political orientations, but they still do decent work. Some embassy/consulate personnel happen to be sincere.
But I’m not talking about “foundations” like the Mindanao Land Foundation where donors/voluntary board chairmen like Bong donate $25.00 and have SALNs that don’t go beyond $2000.00 here. I’m talking about people who r genuinely interested in helping the country in a serious way, and aren’t interested in getting into political power or making pocket change working for the likes of Mike Defensor or Bongbong Marcos. Not all bloggers r for sale, nor do they all hide behind avatars. Not all Pinoys abroad should be judged naman by these guys. These r those who don’t waste time pretending to be pundits but actually do what they can to make a difference (besides yacking, as if that in itself constitutes engagement). Some r here and some r abroad: the country could use them all.
@lila
whats wrong with Mindanao Land Foundation? i dont get the 25 dollars and the 2,000 SALN part. thanks.
and, to be totally honest about it, i think that you anti-pinoy in amerika, looking at the way you’re behaving, you have great potential of becoming the new ku klux klan, :).
Bert,
You’re also too late. We are taking over the “Southern and Northern” California.
• Imperial Beach, San Diego
• Union City, Bay Area
• Daly City, Bay Area
These are the few Cities, are well propagated by Pilipinos.
Mario,
And Cerritos in the Los Angeles area.
Joe
“Wait, can I please clarify, Bert? Why r we talking about the antipinoys nanaman here? Is that what Ricky Rivera’s blog above is referring to? Sorry, these terms (bagong pinoy) r so vague kasi. Another question: what exactly is meant by pinoy-in-pinas?”-Lila
Dear Lila,
Here’s my take on this, Lila. First, we are talking about the anti-pinoys here because mario mentioned it above while at the same comment post deriding the pinoy-in-pinas (their words) as utak-tilapia. Pinoy-in-pinas, for your info since you asked, is the term used by these anti-pinoys, referring to all Filipinos who preferred to stay in the homeland and whom those anti-pinoys branded as morons and idiots and some worst things, and, in benignO’s term..mga aso na mataas lang kapag nakaupo, though benignO’s and BongV’s meanings are more sweeping since they meant the whole Filipino culture which include themselves and their families, and all of us as well. Which is a fair enough thing to say of us if we are perverts and masochists.
The term ‘anti-pinoy’ was their invention, what they called themselves, for really they are, basing from their comments, and whenever I mentioned it in this forum I am thinking of those dudes, including all of their tseware-warewaps.
I hope I’m coherent enough to somewhat clarify things a bit.
Bert,
You, I like. For what reason you may ask, is that you’re an honest person and don’t “beat behind the bush.”
Bert, let me confirmed with you that, I use the term “Pinoy-in-Pinas” not as a deragotory word for my People sa Pinas. But only an indication that they reside in “The Island I Was Born Into.”
“Nothing more, nothing less!”
I like your sense of humor and straight up to the point. My apology to you and, to others here on FV.
I just wanted to start a “ruckus” my bad…!
Please read my comment for macapili, in regards to “utak ng tilapia” [HERE]
Also, please read my comment for Patricio [HERE]
New Politics is the platform of Nicanor Perlas.
I describe New Politics as being able to run on principles and morals and be able to implement it even at the cost of ambition itself. In a negative description, it is not relying on money, celebrities or making a lot of noise. It focuses more platform and character.
what kind of principles? of whose moral code? that’s the problem. which code will we use to be able to say its New Politics that is purely Pinoy?
It is traditional transactional politics when Jun Lozada’s practical code of moderation is key ingredient.
Marcos had his “Bagong Lipunan” and “New Filipino”. Perlas just copied
it.
I think there’s a Freudian motive that goes with bad-mouthing the Filipinos, especially from a pinoy living in the US. The US Pinoy gets assurance life is really much much better. He is released from the heavy emotional stress of the mortgage, bills to pay, possible pink slip, catching a train or the kids school bus, or day care, the sleep deprivation due to the daily monotonous grind of work, work and work. He knows he is in a prison; he can’t even change job, or state, or get away from it all, that would be recklessness. Perhaps, the US Pinoy really needs the Philippine Pinoy to keep him going and be assured that he made the right choice. And he’s really mad, and most likely jealous, seeing that the happy-go-lucky, stupid and mediocre pinoy can still laugh while government corruption and neglect bring this country to the brink of disaster.
Different folks, different strokes. Yup, many Pinoys really are unhappy living in Canada or Australia or any country where working for good money is such hard work.
Even with the children Pinoys, iba iba din ang ugali ng mga kabataan na iyan. Many of the children of the Pinoys-now-away-from-Pinas are unhappy living in Canada dahil ayaw nilang sumakay sa school bus na libre at ubod ng lamig pagdating ng Nobyembre. Pero nagtitiis ang ibang kabataang Pinoy na nasa Canada o Amerika basta kasama ang magulang at may sarili silang kamang mahihigaan pagtulog at ma-igi ang takbo ng pamamahay ng kanilang mga magulang. The children will make sacrifices if the sacrifices make for better lives for their parents. These Pinoy youth, ang akala nila, ganoon dapat, kung alam lang nila.
Different folks, different strokes. Yup, many Pinoys really are unhappy living in Canada or Australia or any country where working for good money is such hard work.
Even with the children Pinoys, iba iba din ang ugali ng mga kabataan na iyan. Many of the children of the Pinoys-now-away-from-Pinas are unhappy living in Canada dahil ayaw nilang sumakay sa school bus na libre at ubod ng lamig pagdating ng Nobyembre. Pero nagtitiis ang ibang kabataang Pinoy na nasa Canada o Amerika basta kasama ang magulang at may sarili silang kamang mahihigaan pagtulog at ma-igi ang takbo ng pamamahay ng kanilang mga magulang. The children will make sacrifices if the sacrifices make for better lives for their parents.
These Pinoy youth, ang akala nila, ganoon dapat, kung alam lang nila, kinakantiyawan lang sila ng ibang mga Pinoy.
bagong pinoy of benigno type and bongv? holy cow!!! This guys cannot teach in a nurturing manner except a vague awareness of the outside world. I can consider them still old and still living on top of the coconut trees. The difference between me, benigno and bongv, is I have a higher tendency to protect my people and nurture my own… :)
The Philippines Old Political brain has no practicality of additive time. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow do not exist. The former and the current are the same. So the institutional response may bear little connection to the current situation.This tendency to hold on to old thinking also helps to simplify why it is so laborious for us to change. It takes a strong motivating force to overpower an old thing. If we have spent a lifetime supporting a particular decision/action, we are unlikely to change readily. Consider brand loyalty or political party identification, or religious affiliation or learning a new concept that rationally is contrary to what we have believed. To the old political brain, anything that is not usual and seasoned feels unnatural.The Educational system is task to cut out for them- to prepare a strong motivating force. Education almost anything requires defeating the traditions or logical-but-wrong ideas constructed in childhood to replenish the gaps of ignorance. To overpower the natural battle of “CHANGE” takes all the ability and forbearance a teacher can call together. All of this goes to explain why a nurturing teacher has a better chance than a hostile benigno and bongv… :) Given enough time and enough repetitions, the old political brain can adjust to a new reality.
Education education and employment…. the rest will follow.
Juan, the folklore character, had a magic cane, why not just look for it.
I have a broomstick, soft and manufactured from an indigenous materials. will that help?
does it fly? kung hindi lumilipad, hindi ba mas magaling na, mas mura pa iyong gawang China?
leytenian,
Gamitan mo na lang na “Walis Tingting” and wear a pointy hat (not the kind that Bert, describe), they might mistaken you for a “ku klux klan” witches. Plus, it’s made sa Pilipinas not, in China. It will profit a higher yield for the Philippines GDP, due to using domestic product.;-)
Spot on.
What can we learn from Winnie Monsod? Check it out.
check out Ellen Tordesillas (dotCom) and why she will not vote for NoyNoy. Trapong transactional politics ata ang binanggit ni Ellen.
Napuntahan ko ang ellentordesillasdotcom pero hindi ko makita ang sinasabi mo sa napakaraming postings doon. Pwede mo bang gawin direct link?
Come on. Winnie is a solid economics scholar. We all know who pays Ellen’s bills.
she didnt write this. she disavowed it in her column.
This is a cut-and-paste. Comment 112 in the thread with title
“Magdalo for Villar / With Conditions”.
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Ellen – February 26, 2010 5:50 am
I’m not authorized to reveal many of the information I know but this I can tell you. If money were the consideration, Magdalo would have voted for Noynoy.
I will not be voting for president because there’s nobody among the presidential candidates i like or maybe I’ll just vote ofr nick perlas but if you think Noynoy camp plays clean, you are very, very wrong.
You disdain “transactional politics”, you think noynoy’s camop does not do that?
ty.
guys,
so what if ellen will not vote for noynoy? or vote with Villar or with any other candidate?
t is usefl to know what people who disagree with you especially your enemis… it is useful to knowwhat othersare thinkng to understand why ideas fayl inthe popularty contest.
hi leytenian,
i think my article was misunderstood. It sparked this anti-Pinoy, utak-tilapia thing which is NOT what I wanted to say here.
I was trying to really get some answers on certain questions, like what it really means to be Pinoy or Filipino or what is so new about Bagong Pulitika or Bagong Pinoy and if there is really something new, what is so new about it.
For me, Benigno nor BongV do not represent Bagong Pinoy, or if they do, why?
Hi Pat,
It’s a great blog. I got to express myself again. Thanks to you.
Bagong pinoy? It depends what time period it is applied to; Cosmological, geological or Historical.
Or we can use our filipino time- Presidential :) like GMA’s time , Erap’s time, FVR time, Cory’s Time, Marcos time or the calendar systems.
For Presidential and calendar systems, we can compare GDP, GNP, employment rate, population, ratio of universities to population, ratio of police force to population, investments and growth and many more. The overall result is expected to be positive. So if the numbers are positive then it can confirm that there’s “bagong pinoy” . On population alone, the numbers are extremely positive :)
good day..
And what will remain (old) in Pinas politics — the next president will be minority, 39% or less of the votes. One would think that by now Pilipinas would have copied the wisdom of fellow-Asians (Indonesians) or Latin Americans (Chileans) or Africans (Ghanians) who requires run-off elections in order to assure that next president has mandate — 50%-plus-one of the votes cast.
Patricio,
Pardon me, for starting a campfire. It was malicious at best. I did realize, it was creating such a wildfire and needed to be put out. My bad…!
We know that, this is not a time of radical, revolutionary politics. Or atleast, not yet. Unrest, riot, dissent, and chaos notwithstanding, today’s politics is reactionary. Both Left and Right are reactionary and authoritarian. Let us just say, both are political and, exercising their political bad habits to our people.
Our government and its administrations always impedes, to try to obtain and, to make inquiry only to revise current methods of acquiring and wielding political power. We as Pilipinos, should not have to attempt a radical and revolutionary movements, but seek not to revise but to revoke. Our objective of revocation should be understood. The target is politics itself. And this is obvious.
Can this be called “Bagong Filipino”
Are we really that desperate for a new change, that all our countrymen would “Surge The Gates” so that we can tell our government that we want an obsolute change for our society. My opinion. We as individual Pilipino should start writing our Representatives and our Congressman[woman]. And give our opinions to what in the HELL is going on within our government systems.
Who’s in control here, The Pilipino People or the pilipino people allowing the government to take the foothold of their everyday lives. Please, no “wowowee” media character, “criminal inmate” or a “cheater” to be allowed in our present 2010 election.
Ooops!
”…that we want an “obsolute” change for our society.”
Correction:
“absolute” is what I meant
Pat you and leytenian are actually on the same page. Cheers.
By the way, did NoyNoy do a flipflop on an old issue? What he said in November 2009, NoyNoy seems to be retracting.
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ILAGAN, Isabela, Philippines – How does Liberal Party (LP) standard-bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III woo votes in the bailiwick of the man his mother replaced in the 1986 people power revolt?
Aquino told Ilocanos here yesterday that if elected president, he would form a commission to study the proposal to bury the remains of the late President Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani in Taguig.
Responding to a question, Aquino said, “We will study the matter and if necessary, form a commission on this matter. I’m not going to be a dictator on the issue. We will weigh the sentiments of various sectors,” said Aquino, who attended Gov. Grace Padaca’s Ugnayang Bayan.
Aquino and Padaca are party mates in the LP, the country’s second oldest party.
“Now, my question to you, “what if, the Pilipinos allow or even vote for Gloria Macapagal Arroyo into Congress, what do you think, the consequences are?”-mario
Oh, sure, Mario, the comelec for sure will allow PGMA to run for congresswoman in Pampanga, but the comelec is not the Filipinos, and, for sure, mario, the kapampangans will vote GMA into Congress, the kapampangans will also vote for GMA’s friend and kumpare Bong Pineda or wife Lilia Pineda, but, the kapampangan is not the Filipino people even if the kapampangans are Filipinos also.
Mario, do you know who is Bong Pineda? Sikat iyon.
Bert,
As much how I am hating it, that my own Kapampangan’s people, I’m sure, not all of them are for PGMA. The reason is, our own demographic cultures are seperating the Pilipino value as a whole. Too much “dialects” and it burdens certain groups of people to choose. Bert, not to be rude but I’m sure you understand what I am trying to imply here.
As for “Rodolfo” I don’t really care for the guy. I hope you understand where I am coming from.
Oh yeah! leave the “Kapampangan’s” alone. LOL!
Food for Thoughts:
• mga “Kapampangan’s” Please don’t vote for Gloria Macapagal Arroyo