Category: Culture

Marcos Day represents the Filipino people’s moving on from a manufactured past

September 6, 2020September 6, 2020 benign0 15 Comments

When a small minority of “activists” continue to encourage Filipinos to latch on to the past and sustain a pathological anxiety about the future, you know there is something wrong. Even more wrong is when these shills conspire with Big Corporate Media to propagate their sick “cause”. Today’s Inquirer editorial, for example, cites, interestingly enough,…

Culture, Development, Politics

The Philippines needs a strong police and army more than ever

August 27, 2020 benign0 11 Comments

Terrorists are getting bolder as it becomes ever more pointedly evident that the Opposition (specifically its leading blocs, the communists and the Yellowtards) regard demonisation of the police and the military as cornerstones of their sick ideologies. Indeed, Filipinos have long suspected strong links between the Yellowtards (the bloc of rabid partisans loyal to the…

Culture, Government, Politics

FREE: the National Word of the Philippines

August 9, 2020 zaxx 4 Comments

How many words are there in existence? Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (2005) contains more than 476,000 vocabulary entries. And each word opens an entirely new world in itself. Take the word justice for example, which opens up the complex concept of receiving what one deserves. Or look into words like peace, socialism, or even…

Culture

Staying True to their Calling, Wokes and Yellows Remain Consistent with Their Inconsistencies

August 4, 2020 Moduli 2 Comments

In engineering, the way to assure that the design or the system works is through consistency. If the desired outcomes are consistently observed, the designer is assured of a peaceful night’s sleep. At the start of the design process, it is expected that the output will be random and all over the place. That’s normal….

Culture, Politics

Filipino-American nutjobs cry bloody “cultural appropriation” over Barkada wine bar

August 2, 2020August 3, 2020 benign0 2 Comments

A Washington DC wine bar originally christened Barkada was forced to change its name following a “social media backlash” from a small group of nutjobs from the Filipino-American community. The National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA), which claims to “[represent] many Filipino organizations, Filipino business owners and workers, and concerned Filipino community members within…

Business, Culture, Society

ABS-CBN was a failed experiment in trusting the private sector to shape national culture

July 21, 2020 benign0 3 Comments

Looking back at how ABS-CBN had influenced Philippine society, one can argue that the whole franchise was a failure. Supporters of the failed network hinge the whole rationale of its existence on “media freedom”. But, while there is clear merit in media freedom, this freedom does not seem to have been applied wisely in the…

Culture, Media

The Right Way to “Cancel” Culture… and maybe Disease

July 15, 2020July 15, 2020 ChinoF 21 Comments

“Cancel Culture” is one of the funny buzzwords of these days. It’s all about boycotting a celebrity when they say something “offensive.” It can be loosely appplied to Wokes’ destruction of statues and staging of massive riots. Perhaps even this thing where children “stand up to parents” over the ABS-CBN closure. But they don’t know…

Culture

The demise of ABS-CBN will herald a mass media renaissance in the Philippines!

July 10, 2020 benign0 2 Comments

If the community of content producers, artists, and creative types would care to pause a bit and step out of the herd mentality that is the lunacy of their “solidarity” with embattled ABS-CBN, they will see the vast opportunities that await their craft with the demise of the Philippines’ biggest mass media empire. For so…

Culture, Media