Category: 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

Introverts Win in the time of Covid-19

July 3, 2020July 3, 2020 ChinoF 3 Comments

I now realize how lucky I am being an introvert, as I could take staying alone in a house (although I am actually not) for a long time. The recent article about Lea Salonga, as well as the many celebrities pontificating on several issues, seemed to confirm my idea that people who seek adulation and…

Culture

Land of the Yellowtards, Redtards, Whitetards and Bluetards

June 22, 2020 zaxx 2 Comments

Welcome to the land of retards on this side of the Pacific, where just about every flavor and color abounds. That marketing tagline “more fun in the Philippines” actually involves the sheer delight of surviving and navigating the jungle of various forms of “schewfidity” that have infected mass groups of gullible people like a pandemic-causing…

Culture, Politics, Society

Filipino “Menial” Mentality leads to Abuses

June 21, 2020June 21, 2020 ChinoF 24 Comments

People are so up and about against tyranny in the Philippines recently. They pointed at barangay officials and police beating up and even shooting quarantine violators. The wokes claim the Duterte Administration is a tyrannical dictatorship similar to the regime of Ferdinand Marcos. They always portray abusive behavior as a concerted effort of top level…

Civics, Culture

On lone dependence on memes as protest tools

May 23, 2020 rsurtida 3 Comments

There was a time when protests were done knowing well enough that such actions could cost your life or a stint in prison. Whether it was on the streets, or publishing or airing subversive materials, people were prepared for any possibility of harm that may come their way for pushing whatever vision or reforms they…

Civics, Culture, Media, Society

#ABSCBN products are mental health HAZARDS designed to elicit Filipinos’ TINGALA Reflex

May 14, 2020 benign0 15 Comments

It took many years for Big Tobacco to be called out as an immoral industry — one that for years legally sold addictive poison to consumers who did not know better. In that context, perhaps this the time to really examine what media conglomerate ABS-CBN are really doing to Philippine society. ABS-CBN products are, at…

Culture, Media

Ayuda is not An Entitlement and cannot be permanent

May 10, 2020September 13, 2021 ChinoF 60 Comments

In this time of Covid-19, aside from the poor, even middle class and rich people asked for relief goods. That was funny. While it may be necessary for a time, some will want it indefinitely. This is abuse. So the thrust after the lifting of quarantine should be getting back to work, which should be…

Culture, Society

#ABSCBN taught Filipinos all the WRONG values

May 9, 2020May 9, 2020 benign0 28 Comments

The way Opposition partisans, specially those among them loyal to the Aquino-Cojuangco feudal clan (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) screech about the shutdown of ABS-CBN’s radio-based broadcasting operations, you’d think an institution essential to Filipino life had met its demise. Much of the brouhaha is centred around the testimonials of ABS-CBN talents themselves such as Pinoy Big…

Culture, Development