We beg to differ.
Nothing necessarily bad about agrarian societies though these get their bad rep from their association with the Third World and “underdevelopment”. Some “economists” would measure “modernisation” in terms of the …
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Filipinos can no longer rely on their traditional gravy trains — OFWism, work outsourced from the First World, foreign investment, and foreign aid — to prop up their labour-added-value economy. …
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The most overused “dissent” template of the Philippine Opposition is that the “(insert issue name here) issue” is the fault of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Because this has been used …
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I was having a conversation with a friend about the COVID-19 pandemic the other day. I asked him why people around the world, not just in the Philippines, blame their …
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Now that the number of COVID-19 cases has breached the 100,000 mark and calls for a renewed lockdown coming from the Philippines’ frontline healthcare workers (HCWs) are being amplified by …
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The Philippines is not a nation of people who take the initiative to do the right thing. We are talking here of the land of the jeepney and a society …
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“Humanity” and all the goodness around empathy and charity sound nice on paper but, eventually, people and the rest of the world with clear pathways to the future move on. …
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I now realize how lucky I am being an introvert, as I could take staying alone in a house (although I am actually not) for a long time. The recent …
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