Category: Society

Suicide is a MORTAL SIN according to the Roman Catholic Church

January 21, 2023 benign0 3 Comments

Lately, the Philippine Opposition had been exploiting for political gain yet another piece of poverty porn. The snippets of copy used as fodder to mount this blame campaign are so predictable that they lend a bit of comedy to an otherwise serious problem. https://twitter.com/KadamaySanRoque/status/1616369658134933504?t=VR1_vLf2R2wpfrUZbMuMsQ&s=19 Victim mentality is evidently a favourite comfort zone of a people…

Economy, Religion, Society

An onion-skinned people crying over onions

January 19, 2023 benign0 2 Comments

Onions are making people cry nowadays and making some people such as frequent — no, professional — fliers like flight attendants, do stupid things. We are seeing an all-too-familiar pattern yet again. While the peoples of the rest of the world mull over matters of strategic and global consequence — climate, global war, sustainable energy…

Glitz and Glamour, Society

Lazy thinking and intellectual bankruptcy remain deeply rooted in the Philippines’ public discourse

January 14, 2023 benign0 2 Comments

In the Philippines, dumbed down political discourse can be seen in various forms of media, particularly in the way political issues and candidates are discussed and presented to the public. This can include the use of simplistic language and slogans, the emphasis on personal characteristics and image over policy positions, and the use of sensationalist…

Culture, Education, Society

Religion and politics: an alliance of money, influence, and power

January 9, 2023 The Unpopular Opinion No Comments

If there is one event that sent chilling shockwaves to the whole world in 2022, aside from the Russian special military operations in Ukraine and the end of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign as the head of state of the United Kingdom, it would definitely be the assassination of the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe….

Crime, History, Politics, Religion, Society

Marcuse’s Great Refusal must itself be Refused

January 2, 2023January 5, 2023 ChinoF 2 Comments

I mentioned earlier that Neo-Marxist Herbert Marcuse is one of the greatest influences on today’s Woke movement. He is one of the Frankfurt School, which assumed Communism had not yet taken over the world because of the protection of western culture. So instead of looking at what’s so good about western culture, Marcuse instead urges…

Culture, Politics, Society

What is wrong with the Philippine Opposition?

October 13, 2022 benign0 23 Comments

Indeed, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. The old adage evidently describes what is likely to be behind the interesting behaviour of the Philippine Opposition nowadays. After a crushingly humiliating rout in this year’s national elections, the Opposition has never been quite the same. It is no longer the revered “force of good”…

Culture, Politics, Society

Humanity best give up its search for the Perfect World

October 12, 2022January 18, 2023 ChinoF 17 Comments

I recall an address some years back by a Philippine military or police spokesperson to discourage youth from joining the New People’s Army where he advised them to stop dreaming of a perfect world. I find that sound advice that I hope many people will listen to. As I have written, many ideologies and philosophies…

Civics, Culture, Government, Politics, Society

The Marxist-Hegelian Religious Cult and Wokeness

September 23, 2022September 23, 2022 ChinoF 9 Comments

I have previously spoken of Marxism in brief as a religious cult. Perhaps it needs a more in-depth explanation since it is a very interesting and controversial subject. It will be based on the explanation provided by James Lindsay of New Discourses who in turn was informed by philosopher Eric Voegelin. Hegelian National Religion It…

Culture, Politics, Society