Voting Priests Into Office
There is something woefully wrong when old men who, by their chosen vocation, can never experience married life, engage in sexual intercourse and have children, are the first to galvanise the citizenry on issues of family planning and reproductive health. Read the rest here.
Queueing and Democracy
In the society we have evolved into these past few decades, it is clearly every person for herself. Everyone wants to “one-up” everyone else. From the littlest things, as the queuing incident, to the biggest multi-billion-Peso-worth things. Read the rest here.
Barbarians in Our Midst
There is perennial interest from the media and the general public every time there is an incidence of violence or death related to UP’s fratenities. I think the interest stems mostly from puzzlement over how some of the country’s supposed ‘best and brightest’ could commit such inane acts. I am sure sociologists have more sophisticated explanations about how the group dynamics of these organisations work – and why they result to senseless, stupid and lethal ends. But here is my two cent’s worth. And some suggestions.
Why Do Some Countries Remain Poor While Others Grow Rich?
This is a question that has never stopped nagging me since the very first time I left this country eleven years ago. It is one thing seeing it on television growing up, it is another being in the First World yourself. Explanations by the likes of F. Sionil Jose – which basically say we are poor because of our culture – is simply unsatisfactory. Read here.
Quest for Truth: ZTE-NBN Scandal (Finally Updated)
I went to this forum hoping to feel something, to take away something – a renewed fervour. I took away something alright – the feeling that forums like these were meant to provide comfort and hope for discomforting and hopeless times. Read here.
Taming Capitalism
Know more about the politics of haute finance and what it means when you hear ‘US recession’ and sub-prime crisis. Click here.
In Defence of the Trully Talented and the Merit of Merit
Are Tim Yap and Celine Lopez the best our pop culture has to offer? Read the rest here.
Deconstructing Celine Lopez’ Book Report
How bizarre that one of the main protagonists in the Pinoyblogosphere’s latest revolts against the so-called elite’s exposed decadence, should chose a book that is the anti-thesis of her and her friends’ reason for being . Peddling values which belong to the 19th century. Guiltless partying and bacchanalia of the sin-free. Values that say you have your world and I have mine and never the twain shall meet. Read the rest here.
Reflections on Public Spaces
I have heard many years ago how our public officials are so out of touch from an everyday Filipino’s reality simply by being physically separated from the spaces in which they move. It was said that once in a while, our leaders should roll down the heavily-tinted windows of their four-wheel drives to see, hear and smell the urban sprawl. Read the rest here.
Are Filipinos Poor Because We’re Lazy?
I have given this some thought, and wonder at its validity. Is there a direct causal relation between laziness and poverty? That is, are we poor because we’re lazy? Or are we lazy because we’re poor?
