Category: Society

The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus forces us to rethink our lifestyles

March 14, 2020 Ilda 2 Comments

Societies around the world have been caught flat-footed after the spread of a new disease now named COVID-19 carried by the novel coronavirus has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO). It has exposed how ill-prepared most governments, including governments from First World countries are, to a threat of mass casualties. One…

Society

The Opposition should stop blaming Duterte if they want to win the next election

March 1, 2020 benign0 10 Comments

Gone are the days when demonising the incumbent worked for an Opposition party. Indeed, this is the lesson that today’s Philippine Opposition still hasn’t learned in the aftermath of the catastrophic loss of their Otso Diretso coalition in the 2019 election. That bunch hinged their entire campaign on a smear job on the government of…

Politics, Society

The problem with De-stigmatizing and Forced Acceptance Efforts

February 16, 2020 ChinoF 2 Comments

The reaction of opponents against the decision then of President Duterte to move tambays (derived from “stand-bys” or loitering freeloaders) off the streets included attempts to de-stigmatize tambays. They say things like “not all tambays are crooks” or “being tambay is not wrong.” But these are not really true because increased number of tambays has…

Civics, Culture, Society

IBON Foundation “red-tagging” complaint will fly only if they can CATEGORICALLY DENY links to the Communist Party

February 10, 2020 benign0 2 Comments

News has now gotten around that communist front IBON Foundation filed an administrative complaint against Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy among others. IBON Foundation reportedly claim that Badoy engaged in “red tagging”. Presumably, the complaint draws partly from a video showing Badoy allegedly “hijacking” the agenda of a talk show that included…

Politics, Society

Unless social media changes, it will continue to make people dumber instead of smarter

January 7, 2020 benign0 7 Comments

Social media is proving to be less and less effective at delivering across important messages in an increasingly complex world. The trend towards more digestible but, as a consequence, less substantial content shared on social media started back in the mid- to late-2000s when “microblogging” sites like Twitter started ramping up in popularity. As more…

Society, Tech Talk

Recall that Western and Christian ideals were used to justify colonisation and imperial rule

December 29, 2019 benign0 5 Comments

Back when the Spanish Conquistadors first set foot on Philippine shores and claimed all in the name of God and the Spanish king, it would have looked like this all made sense. Christianity, after all, was the “good” religion and Western civilisation regarded as a necessary “civilising” force. Europeans saw themselves as burdened by a…

Government, Politics, Society

There are worse people than Andal Ampatuan Jr and they are among us

December 19, 2019December 19, 2019 benign0 10 Comments

Frankly I fail to be impressed by all the huffing and puffing about how “shocking” the massacre of 58 people is allegedly in the hands of warlord Andal Ampatuan Jr. I also fail to be impressed by the people who are grandstanding about calls for “justice” and close public scrutiny of (and the proposed televising)…

Crime, Media, Society

Why spending big bucks on nice things is a better investment than throwing money at the poor

December 1, 2019December 1, 2019 benign0 9 Comments

The recent success of the opening ceremonies of the 2019 Southeast Asian Games and, for that matter, the overall multi-million dollar investment in hosting the Games proves a point. Filipinos, and people in general — rich or poor — love to see and experience nice things. This is the reason the half-witted argument of choice…

Culture, Development, Society

Anonymous
on A Foreign Blogger’s Poor Opinion on Filipino Food And What’s Seriously Wrong About Filipino Food Blogging
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Pinkeye Cebu
on Alex Eala has ONE job
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Pinkeye Cebu
on Alex Eala has ONE job
Why not worship scientists, doctors, and classical musicians who are
Edith
on Alex Eala losing to Shi Han in Wuhan Open 2026: ‘nakakahiya’ (shameful) according to her Filipino fans
I am not much of a tennis fan, but I
No Data
on Alex Eala has ONE job
You and the rest of the commenters in this post
No Data
on Alex Eala has ONE job
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Ted Magdalena
on Alex Eala has ONE job
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No Data
on Alex Eala has ONE job
Wrong, collectivism is primitive and obsolete. A person’s personal goals