Category: Society

A reminder to Filipinos – the cardinal rules of the House of Aquino

April 30, 2013July 25, 2013 FallenAngel 24 Comments

Is it just me, or a growing number of Filipino citizens are becoming more dissatisfied with president Benigno Simeon Aquino III’s (BS Aquino) performance as time passes by? Those who are dissatisfied claim that nothing much has changed. BS Aquino apparently still hasn’t managed to reduce poverty despite his “kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap“ guiding…

Civics, Government, Society

Lack of thinking and arrogant attitudes are the Philippines’ undoing

April 29, 2013October 28, 2015 Ilda 150 Comments

In the Philippines, there are many people who claim to have a monopoly on great ideas. They claim to know what is good for you and everyone else. Some of them get very impatient about bringing their ideas into “action”. These people also think that their ideas are superior to other people’s ideas. They quickly…

Culture, Government, Politics, Society

Just Do It: An Exposition on the Question of the Virtue of Courage

April 27, 2013 Jose Mario de Vega 1 Comment

There is no iota of doubt that one of the primordial characteristics that humanity value in a person is their virtue of courage. In Greek, the word is translated as Andrea; while the other English translation is: Fortitude. However, due to the greatness of the English language and the grandeur of the ancient Greek, today…

Civics, Society

Criminality is the sign of society’s moral decadence, social poverty and economic inequality

April 25, 2013 Jose Mario de Vega 9 Comments

It has been quite some time now that the prevailing issues, hot topics and shocking headlines of our newspapers and the dominant talk of the town is the apparent and seeming rise of criminal statistics and the rampant commission of various crimes, specifically those of economic in nature and background. The root causes of crime…

Civics, Crime, Education, Society

MTRCB slams Wowowillie for dancers’ skimpy attire

April 22, 2013 benign0 8 Comments

Too much flesh on Wowowillie? Willie Revillame is once again in hot water after the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) slapped a three-month probation on the popular noontime show after netizens supposedly complained about the skimpy outfits of its dancers featured in its 16th April episode. TV5 Network management which airs the…

Glitz and Glamour, Society

My sympathy to all victims of bombs, violence, aggression and imperialism and US Global Domination

April 22, 2013April 22, 2013 Jose Mario de Vega 71 Comments

While doing my usual virtual activity to my surprise and amusement, I run across an article from the so-called The Society of Honor by Joe America maliciously entitled â€œSympathy to the Boston Bomber?â€ criticizing my article â€œThe Boston Bombing and the US government’s history of mass murder” posted by GetReal Philippines.COM on April 19th. Let…

Crime, Government, Society

Murder scorecard: Is America ‘good’ or is it ‘evil’?

April 19, 2013 benign0 17 Comments

Fact is there is only a small handful of “sides” to take (i.e. choose to live under) within the current world order. And all of those dominant “sides” represented by powerful regimes like China, the US, the British Commonwealth, and (still) Russia, among others — encompassing commie systems, democracies, republics, monarchies, etc. — that dot…

Government, Society

Why the Philippines Failed? A Developmental Perspective

April 18, 2013April 18, 2013 Richard Javad Heydarian 38 Comments

In his seminal book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905), Max Weber, widely known as the father of modern sociology, provided (arguably among the first and most compelling) arguments on the relationship (or correlation) between â€˜cultureâ€™ and â€˜economic productivityâ€™. As an established economic analyst, Weber was interested in understanding why protestant nations…

Culture, Development, Society