Category: Society

The ivory tower that is the Ateneo de Manila University

March 7, 2016 benign0 105 Comments

It’s nothing short of a memetic explosion. Get Real Post articles that dissected and, in the process, eviscerated the ill-conceived conceptual foundation of a statement released by the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) faculty, denouncing Martial Law “historical revisionism” and baldly accusing Philippine senator and vice presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos of “brutality” have strongly-resonated amongst…

Culture, Education, Society

An Interview With A Prince: Of Heroes And Monsters Of History

March 5, 2016 Grimwald 6 Comments

This interview is more or less a late response to Charles Englund’s interview with Heneral Luna last year… Good evening ladies and gentlemen, it’s your favorite high-functioning internet troll Thaddeus Grimwald here in the province of Transylvania, Romania in Bran Castle to interview Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia! And without further ado, here comes the…

Culture, Government, Politics, Society

Catching up with Mao: on young Filipinos’ rejection of the false ‘spirit of EDSA’

March 5, 2016 Celestino Manrique II 12 Comments

The millennial generation of Filipinos have helped in what 5-10 years ago would have seemed as an impossible PR turnaround by Senator Bongbong Marcos, son of the late “dictator” Ferdinand E. Marcos. The only son of the late president is running for vice president, and several groups have protested what they say is an attempt…

Government, Politics, Society

The TRUTH about Martial Law: Young Filipinos no longer believe that it was all bad!

March 3, 2016January 3, 2022 benign0 178 Comments

The war for minds surrounding the 2016 elections now seems to be centred on how the last 30 years of “freedom” that was “won” in 1986 stacks up against the 20-year Martial Law regime of former President Ferdinand Marcos. You can see it in how much “lest we forget” messages that aim to “educate” the…

Crime, Featured, Government, Politics, Society

We Really Need To Know The Difference Between ‘Pleasantry’ And ‘Goodness’

March 2, 2016 Grimwald 10 Comments

So here we are with countless Aquino supporters trumpeting “Never Again” to Marcos supporters. According to them even, Senator Bong-Bong Marcos, son of former president Ferdinand Marcos, should answer for the alleged “crimes” of his father during the Martial Law years. President Aquino even went on to state that the senator should apologize to all…

Culture, Development, Government, Society

Deep

March 1, 2016 Grimwald No Comments

Author’s Note Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the rewrite of Deep, one of my first attempts at web fiction on GRP. Unfortunately, due to its considerable length, I was forced to abandon the project and focus more on articles and shorter forms of fiction. I write this now as a way to appease the few readers…

Waking up from The Matrix that is the Aquino idolatry

March 1, 2016 rsurtida 48 Comments

If there’s one thing I can credit the Aquinos without malice, and with an air of awe and wide-eyed wonder, it would be their successful brainwashing of the majority of the Philippine population into looking at their clan like the second coming of Christ himself. The kind of adoration from people that, even if they’re…

Civics, Culture, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Filipino millenial voters deserve better than a 1970s-vintage ‘Never Again’ slogan

February 29, 2016February 29, 2016 benign0 33 Comments

The youth is all about the future. This is why the ‘Never Aqain’ rhetoric of the anti-Marcos camp all but fails to resonate amongst the Philippines’ youth. That’s unfortunate for candidates and parties that have their so-called platforms firmly-rooted in the past. Young Filipinos, quite simply, do not care about the past, perhaps, rightly so,…

Politics, Society

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