Tag: millennials

Desperate Opposition and dismal Robredo popularity amid rising Marcos numbers confirm fraud that cost Marcos VP win in 2016

July 5, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

In his Inquirer piece “President Robredo”, Joel Ruiz Butuyan refers to a “political force” that, Buntuyan suggests, could include former supporters of President Rodrigo Duterte who are “completely disillusioned now, and don’t want his chosen candidate as his successor.” He also proposes that members of this political force “concede that Vice President Leni Robredo is…

Politics

The Philippines needs less emotional millennials who can think strategically in terms of national interests

May 24, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Excellent read, this piece “A millennial considers the new German Problem after 30 years of peace”. Its author, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and German millennial Ulrike Franke, laments how her demographic “struggle to think in terms of interests, we struggle with the concept of geopolitical power, and we struggle…

Development, Society

Ph media should focus on reporting about the #2019SEAGames and not on making THEMSELVES the news

November 30, 2019December 27, 2019 benign0 5 Comments

After making an ass of themselves slandering the effort to prepare for the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, the Philippine media have a lot of work to do to redeem themselves. To do this, they will need to prove that they are worthy of re-earning the public trust that they had lost. This means they need…

Glitz and Glamour, Media

Prices beyond the reach of poor Filipinos because of “woke” millennials promoted by Rappler

October 8, 2018October 8, 2018 benign0 26 Comments

The term “millennial” does not have noble origins. It is actually a concept cooked up by marketers and brand managers several years ago who wanted nothing more than a convenient catch-all for the next generation of suckers to sell useless stuff to. Millennials — specially in the setting of prosperous East Asian economies — are…

Lifestyle, Media, Money Talks

Will the next anti-Duterte rally be AWESOME enough for Millennials?

September 12, 2017 benign0 10 Comments

According to various sources, there will be (yet another) protest rally against the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in the coming days. What are these rallyists going to protest? Duterte’s purported authoritarianism? Martial Law in Mindanao? “Killings” related to his “war on drugs”? So what else is new? This is, after all, the era…

Lifestyle, Politics

Mandatory military training in Ph schools needed to toughen up ‘temperamental’ millennials

February 8, 2017February 13, 2017 benign0 16 Comments

I had an epiphany today. I found out that ROTC (a.k.a. Citizen’s Military Training or CMT or Citizen’s Army Training or CAT) hasn’t been mandatory in Philippine schools since 2001. And so I thought, holy shit, that explains a lot about the quality of Filipino “millennials” today! I realise now that mixed into the cocktail…

Education, Featured, Society

The Failure of Humanism

January 23, 2017 ChinoF 12 Comments

This is quite the controversial statement, but it needs to be said again: humanism had failed to save the world. Humanism-embracing people will bawl and rant against it, but it is what many have noticed. Humanism that is based on exalting humans as the highest of things and is often used in angry rants against…

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Culture

Iza Calzado laments how Anti-Marcos fundamentalists divide the nation

January 22, 2017 benign0 16 Comments

Actress Izadora Calzado is under fire from the usual social media suspects following her flattering impersonation of former First Lady Imelda Marcos at a party. GMA News Online reports Calzado’s explanation of her interesting choice of costume she wore to Tim Yap’s birthday celebration to impersonate Mrs. Marcos… “Decided to channel my inner Imelda Marcos…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour