Tag: thinking

Filipinos should seize the opportunity to define themselves on their own terms NOW

December 10, 2018 benign0 23 Comments

If there is something deeper that would characterise the last two to three years, it is an increased confusion around Filipinos’ sense of identity as a people. Filipinos no longer enjoy the benefit of being told who they are. This is thanks to the rise of the Net and, specifically, its killer app — social…

Development, Media, Society

Filipinos need to modernise their primitive politics

November 8, 2018 benign0 41 Comments

Too many colours. Too many symbols. Too many sound bytes. Philippine politics is framed by the clever work of public relations (PR) consultants who craft poetic messages that extend strong emotional hooks that the public readily bites. Because of the potent emotional payload of the messaging that makes up the bulk of the campaign rhetoric…

Education, Politics, Society

Dealing With a Bleeding, Stabbed-With-Truth Ego

October 5, 2018 Moduli 13 Comments

It’s amusing and annoying at the same time reading comments on blogs such as this, that point out the idiocy and the reasons why Filipinos, collectively, have a hard time getting out of the mud that he loves wallowing into. Words like racist, butthurt, asshole are thrown by either side. Some have never-ending thread of retaliation…

Culture, Society

Filipinos continue to prefer mestizas over ‘kayumanggis’ because they are lazy thinkers

April 3, 2018 benign0 9 Comments

It’s no secret that having fair skin in the Philippines translates to upward social mobility. If we consider for a moment that the skin colours that dominate Philippine entertainment may be good indicators of the sorts of folks Filipinos look up to and even worship, it is fair to conclude that this remains true today….

Culture, Society

Filipinos need to be taught how to think and not to simply believe

March 28, 2018 benign0 19 Comments

Filipinos need to learn how to think. It is imperative that they do because many things about the 21st Century demand an uplift in thinking. We can see how important this is in the recent events that have plunged Western-style democracy into crisis. It had become evident that men working with machines could turn human…

Media, Politics, Society

We need to help develop true thinking Pinoys rather than mere following Pinoys

November 9, 2017 benign0 3 Comments

My colleague Paul Farol, the other day, pointed out that the best way to combat the Yellowtards’ troll-like social media behaviour and style of “debate” is “to take the game to where the yellows cannot follow.” It seems some key social media personalities within the so-called “die-hard Duterte supporters” (DDS) clique have failed to do…

Culture, Government, Media, Politics

Florin Hilbay blocks people on social media because he cannot handle dissent

November 4, 2017February 13, 2022 benign0 5 Comments

What kind of lawyer does not listen to dissenting or alternative opinion? Weren’t they trained to present sound and robust arguments in a logical manner? Well, it seems former Solicitor General Florin Hilbay is one such lawyer who does not like to listen to arguments and understand points of view that run counter to his….

Media, Politics, Society