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The lesson “political analysts” and “strategists” seem to have not learnt yet about social media is that it feeds one’s confirmation biases — basically shows you what you want to see. This is specially true of those who block, unfollow, or “unfriend” people in their social networks who express political views different to theirs. As…
If one were to believe the foremost communist “thought leaders”, one would think that simply tagging a person as “red” is a magical curse that dooms that person to a violent death. Perhaps it is a modern-day version of the Filipino tradition of believing in kulam, or the form of witchcraft practiced by pagan indigenous…
True to form in the way Filipinos imagine themselves to be the inventors of “peaceful change in leadership”, we see the Inquirer editor, in that familiar tradition of Filipino self-aggrandisement, insert the “Filipino experience” into Malaysian current events. Today’s Inquirer Op-Ed peace is given the title “The Marcoses of Malaysia”. Not surprisingly, practically the entire…
So, are you ready for round 3 people of the Philippines? Did my last two beatdowns hurt? Well then, get ready because this is going to hurt even more… See, as I’ve come to note again and again, when people coddle you, you never really pay attention to them. Not only do you refuse to…
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The human brain is a wondrous instrument. It starts out as a blank data processing device that is wired to five data collection channels — our senses. From the minute we are born, our senses kick into operation, collecting information about our environment and feeding it to the brain. One can’t really imagine what it…
Can a change in system of government really change the development trajectory of an entire nation? Perhaps so, but the complexity of any causal link that might exist between a system of government and the future success — or failure — of a country does not allow us a straightforward way of determining just how…
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