Tag: activism

Singer Leah Navarro and the intellectual bankruptcy of Philippine society

June 14, 2014 benign0 10 Comments

Interesting insight into how the mind of a die-hard celebrity “activist” works. Attempts to discuss ideas simply fly over some people’s heads because of a seeming inability to lift the level of discourse from political people and events to the stratosphere of world-class thinking where ideas are the primary currency of discourse. Evidence of this…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Politics, Society

4 reasons why equality and justice cannot be achieved in the Philippines

June 14, 2014June 14, 2014 Ilda 49 Comments

With news that dozens of Philippine public servants have been pocketing public funds for years through what is dubbed the pork barrel scam consistently dominating the headlines of major publications around the country since 2013, one wonders why the majority of the Filipino public still haven’t stormed the office of the President or Congress to…

Culture, Government, Politics, Society

Philippine activism needs a serious reboot and a major cast-of-characters overhaul!

June 13, 2014June 13, 2014 benign0 21 Comments

Perhaps it is time Filipino activists re-evaluate things. It is becoming evident that traditional protest movement organisers and leaders like Leftists and ‘civil society’ cliques are no longer able to inspire the popular sentiment and, as such, no longer possess the clout to mobilise the numbers and secure sufficient media mileage for their causes. For…

Civics, Society

3 core principles that should define a NATIONAL-SCALE Anti Pork Barrel Movement henceforth

June 12, 2014June 12, 2014 benign0 3 Comments

Seems the decision to hold the official presidential Independence Day celebration in Naga City, Camarines Sur was shrewdly-timed considering that a big anti-Pork rally is scheduled to be mounted in Luneta Park that same afternoon. According to an ABS-CBN News report, Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III used the occasion mainly to slam critics…

Crime, Government, Politics, Society

Why London’s anti-homeless spikes are a great idea Filipinos should take note of

June 10, 2014June 10, 2014 benign0 10 Comments

A public uproar has erupted over a photo of metal studs installed on floors at the entrance of luxury apartment buildings in London to deter homeless people from sleeping in these areas. No less than the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has reportedly joined the social media indignation frenzy condemning these fixtures as “ugly, self…

Civics, Politics, Society

How idiopreneurship can stem the flow of talented people abandoning the Philippines

June 6, 2014June 6, 2014 benign0 24 Comments

Much has been said about how the appalling work conditions, low pay, and stifling congestion in the Philippines is driving away its most talented workers. But what seems to be the biggest put-off for the greatest Filipino minds is the intellectual bankruptcy that prevails in Philippine society. Much has also been said about technology being…

Crime, Development, Education, Government, Media, Politics, Society, Technology

6.12.14 Scrap Pork Coalition: If you just have to protest, make sure you protest the RIGHT thing

June 3, 2014 benign0 8 Comments

I had asserted earlier in a previous article that the investigation on the pork barrel scam should build a case from the ground up without having to be coloured by media and publicity stunts and the noise around these drummed up by the country’s vacuous “activist” mobs. This echoes what Senator Aquilino Pimentel III points…

Crime, Government

Filipinos’ obssession with ‘happiness’ is what keeps them mired in chronic poverty

May 27, 2014May 27, 2014 benign0 58 Comments

Again, I’m seeing the Happy card being played a lot these days. Filipinos can’t get enough of that card. It’s a poor man’s Ace. You can’t make yourself rich overnight, but you can certainly make yourself “happy” in the next minute. And so that is why “Happy” is de facto the buzzword of the Loser…

Culture, Development, Lifestyle, Society