Tag: consumerism

One Year On: Why I Believe both SM and Save 182 have Failed Baguio City in 2012

January 15, 2013 MidwayHaven 161 Comments

It was around a year ago when I wrote a commentary on Get Real Philippines entitled â€œBaguio City: Ruined by Pinoy Mentality.â€ It was a timely article, considering the ramifications of various events happening in the City where I currently live in. One of the Philippinesâ€™ largest commercial and real-estate institutions had plans to construct…

Civics, Development, Environment, Science

Pinoys’ Poor Money Habits

December 3, 2012March 5, 2014 ChinoF 50 Comments

I often say in my articles that Filipinos refuse to mend their ways. That includes not only their habits with Pinoy Pride, but also their habits with money. We attribute poverty in the country to many things. But for me, one of the obvious things that people tend to gloss over is that Filipinos tend…

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Money Talks

How modern governance, technology and commerce masks the continued impunity of the powerful

June 19, 2012 benign0 35 Comments

Eat my shorts. Quintessentially Bart Simpson and a brilliant encapsulation of all that makes absolute power so delicious and such a worthwhile goal to pursue. Telling somebody to “eat my shorts” is sweet, because it is such a succinct way of telling someone You can whine all you want, but I can pretty much do…

Society

Protesting the destruction of trees by SM Baguio: a pointless exercise at best

April 11, 2012 benign0 43 Comments

So now we’re suddenly protesting the removal of a couple hundred trees from an area of land upon which an expansion of the SM Baguio mall will be built. I wonder, though: Why only now? Last I heard, the destruction of Baguio City had been going on for decades. Indeed, Filipinos have been destroying Baguio…

Development, Environment, Government, Society

Counter-intuitive solutions to fixing the Philippine economy

April 3, 2012April 3, 2012 benign0 4 Comments

I remain convinced that America’s immense creative and commercial energy will shine through whatever social order is imposed on it; much the same way as the might of Chinese entrepeneurial and industrial ethic managed to thrive in the repressive communist regime of the mainland as well as in even most the dysfunctional and corrupt governments…

Development, Economy, Money Talks

Love and other vices on Valentines Day

February 13, 2012 Ilda 14 Comments

Valentines Day. This day always brings out the best and worst in people. Itâ€™s hard not to feel sorry for the rest of the population whether they be men or women, or boys or girls who feel left out on that day — a day which in the cosmic scheme of things is really just…

Glitz and Glamour, Society

Foreign capital will not solve Filipinos’ inability to apply capital profitably

June 3, 2011April 26, 2018 benign0 41 Comments

In my 2006 book Get Real Philippines Book 1, one of the key solutions I cited to the challenge of effecting fundamental change in the path we have (rather consciously) set for ourselves to chronic impoverishment is to re-evaluate the content of our mass media. I highlighted that it is an easy solution, because much…

Development, Economy, Media