Category: Society

In a society where the majority is comprehension-challenged, should majority rule?

May 22, 2024 benign0 13 Comments

It is easy to tell that Fiesta Election season in the Philippines is just around the corner. There is ayuda talk aplenty with one or the other politician “pushing” one “initiative” or the other to “alleviate” the “plight” of “the poor”. Many of these are initiatives are well within the power of administrators of various…

Society

Why is Filipino “patriotism” so CRINGE?

May 18, 2024May 19, 2024 benign0 13 Comments

One is consistently hard-pressed to get an authentic stand-up-and-put-hand-on-heart-with-welling-eyes vibe when called to emit a bit of patriotic signals for the Philippines. The latest such attempt to reel in some “love of country” sentiment comes in the form of an all-too-familiar “people power” stunt pulled by “non-government coalition” Atin Ito (“this is ours”) which set…

Politics, Society

The Philippines’ hollow no-substance political leaders and alliances hinders its development

May 16, 2024 Ramon Ortoll 5 Comments

In his recent piece “Ideology, anyone?”, Manila Standard columnist Lito Banayo hits upon a key reason why we are not as progressive as our ASEAN neighbors. Banayo gets to the core of why the “Unity” theme of the current administration of President Bongbong Marcos (PBbM) is in a death spiral sharing a conversation he picked…

Politics, Society

“Poverty” is such a BORING topic!

May 4, 2024 benign0 69 Comments

Considering that the Philippines has been poor for most of its history, it’s quite a wonder that “poverty” gets the inches and air time it does in the Philippines’ mainstream media and the rhetoric of its “activists”. It really isn’t news anymore. The effort to “analyse” Pinoy-style “poverty” is effort wasted as there really is…

Economy, Society

On what bases do Filipinos harbour “hope” for 2024?

December 31, 2023 benign0 8 Comments

A report on a recent Pulse Asia survey reportedly shows that more than 90 percent of Filipinos face the New Year with a feeling of “hope”. “Amid the various challenges Filipinos face on a daily basis, most of them continue to remain optimistic, with 92 percent saying they will face the new year with hope….

Development, Society

Filipino communists cozy up to BBM admin to join Uncle Sam’s Little Brown American community

December 19, 2023 Ramon Ortoll 3 Comments

One of my high school batchmates who’s a prominent leftist-liberal joined the Atin Ito resupply mission, if you want to call it that. Inquirer columnist Randy David touts it as “the birth of active citizenry” — if you want to believe that crap, that is. As Edicio dela Torre, one of the leaders of the…

Development, Society

Commies and Yellowtards swallow their ideologies along with their pride

December 1, 2023December 1, 2023 benign0 11 Comments

“Thought leaders” of the Yellowtard-Communist Axis find themselves in a conundrum seeing (or, perhaps, them merely asserting) that the administration of Bongbong Marcos is “undoing” what former President Rodrigo Duterte did during the previous administration. Both the Yellowtards and the commies now find the need to tone down their formerly shrill Marital Law Crybaby rhetoric…

Politics, Society