Category: Culture

Law-abiding Filipinos are getting sick of law-breaking Filipinos

December 26, 2014 benign0 173 Comments

Some of us Get Real Post writers are often criticised about the way we generalise Filipinos. Indeed, to be fair, there are hundreds of articles here that explore from every angle and at every level of depth, the country’s renowned collective criminality, its petty anti-intellectual political discourse, the routine mediocrity of Filipinos’ undertakings, and the…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Government, Politics, Society

#ToBeFilipino this Christmas season

December 24, 2014December 16, 2022 benign0 42 Comments

Ah, to be Filipino. No other time of the year clarifies this term better than the Christmas season. Tis’ the season for giving indeed and to be Filipino is to take the initiative to remind people of this fact. Namamasko po. To be Filipino is to wish people a “Merry Christmas” with an open palm…

Culture, Lifestyle, Society

The new Ten Commandments for the 21st Century announced!

December 22, 2014 benign0 81 Comments

A collaborative exercise organised by Silicon Valley technology entrepreneur Lex Bayer and Stanford University humanist chaplain John Figdor, authors of the book Atheist Mind, Humanist Heart has come up with a new set of Ten Commandments for the 21st Century. According to the “Winning Beliefs” page of the authors’ website, 13 judges selected the ten…

Civics, Culture, Development, Education, Politics, Religion, Society

First Church of Atheism: Atheism will turn into just another religion if its adherents are not careful

December 19, 2014 benign0 38 Comments

Atheism is becoming a religion and its prophet is Richard Dawkins. The fledgling Church of Dawkins is on track to follow the same evolutionary path trod by other organised religions. Originally, it is intellectuals that embrace the teachings (because they understand their true essence) of the prophet and went about to propagate said teachings. It…

Culture, Lifestyle, Religion, Science, Society

Let’s not allow political correctness to get in the way of a real discussion about Islamic terrorism

December 18, 2014 benign0 26 Comments

Down in Australia’s premiere banking district at the heart of Sydney last Monday, Man Haron Monis, a self-styled Islamic cleric took staff and customers of a Lindt cafe in Martin Place hostage and forced them to raise a black flag bearing an Arabic inscription in white that says “There is no god but Allah; Muhammad…

Crime, Culture, Religion, Society

Necropolitics vs negropolitics: Can Grace Poe beat Jejomar Binay to the Philippine presidency?

December 15, 2014July 23, 2015 benign0 15 Comments

So a viable winnable candidate who could pose a serious challenge to Vice President Jejomar Binay’s bid for the presidency in 2016 has emerged. Senator Grace Poe has come up as the second most popular presidentiable according to a Pulse Asia “survey” conducted in November wherein respondents were asked who they would vote for President…

Culture, Politics, Society

Why DILG Secretary Mar Roxas deserves to be ridiculed

December 12, 2014December 12, 2014 benign0 13 Comments

You gotta laugh when you read about people coming to the defense of Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas. There is enough reason to take Roxas’s numerous laughable publicity stunts with a grain of salt at best. An executive riding a motorbike without a helmet to do work he should be delegating…

Civics, Culture, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Why Senator Bongbong Marcos should read the Holy Bible

December 10, 2014December 10, 2014 benign0 45 Comments

It does not take much to attract media attention in the Philippines. You just need to do something “special”. Fortunately for Filipinos, their society had set a low bar for specialness. For many politicians, simply taking a bus or a train along with the peasants makes them special enough to be elected to government posts…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Religion, Society