@Chino

Things could be worse… The Church of Rome is kinder and gentler compared to its pre-Vatican II era. If only our bishops quit playing Caesar…

Filipinos have rejected what is real for distraction. The same goes for most societies, but never before have I seen pop trash glorified as something substantial as it is in the Philippines.

http://datejesus.com/sermons/sermon1.html

I agree with your article. It’s very Filipino tradition that parents rather want you to be close to them than to follow what you want to be. My brother is an electrical engineering, he would have love to go to Cal Poly State University. But for the fact that we live in San Francisco, my parents for UC Davis. Cal Poly is about 4.5 hours away, compared to UC Davis that’s 1.5 hours. Is UC Davis a good school for engineering, kinda, is Cal Poly State better? HELL yeah!

And its true about the other personality you mention, I know this cause i’m living with one. Once they feel their life is stable they don’t want to do anything else. As long as they can eat three meals a day, they would just be happy about their life. They don’t ambition for a higher status.

As for what major you aspire to be, It’s very common thing for Filipino parents to tell their kids to be a NURSE!!! For one thing, because it gets the money faster. They rather want you to be a Nurse than to be a Dentist. No prestige at all. I’m not saying Nurse is a bad thing, but why force your children to be nurse if they don’t want to be. Just because it makes $40+ an hour or $56/hr overtime after 4 year university doesn’t necessary make it the right choice. Sure theirs job security, but are your kids happy?

Vote for me and I’ll change this culture of mediocrity. We gotta be less claniish! We gotta be more like the Japanese: seppuku being the only reward for failure. Seppuku all the way, baby!

And btw, please ignore my autistic inbred cousin. He’s lost his marbles ever since he started to look like Homer Simpson.

TANG INA >>>>>>>>>> SHEYTTTTT

Puedeng makisali? I think it’s so malayo pa, men…. with 20% elite, 80% brainwashed, and .0001% like us with such diretso isip, men… it sure is so malayo pa. Ever! hehehe

Jet,

Your description of daily routine is right in line with what I have experienced, courtesy of my wife and her family. Her dad wholesales tuba . . . and makes furniture from illegally harvested trees . . . her mom . . . well, she get around, in an entirely different province . . .

I love the idea of your party to watch the religious whip up a good frenzy,
maybe another time, another place, as I am rather ensconced here on Biliran . . .

Joe

convergence and revolutions ends up painting the streets red with blood… and nation building starts from the ownership of a cult like tenets that define who is god, king or dictator; who is the group or political party rulers… or simple statements that begin with “WE THE PEOPLE”… The snapping point that you’re asking likely occurs when the 80% dumb ones area already literally hungry… perhaps when the state rulers or the ruling class’ failure to address the concerns of Maslow’s first three basic needs are already felt by each citizens… food, clothing and shelter. When this notion of DISEQUILIBRIUM is already in the head of the dumb and hungry 80%, no matter how brainwashed they are, they will come to a point to believe in something out of the ordinary…. it’s gonna be one hell of a bloody kurutan…

…perhaps not in our lifetime… but this historical process starts with definitions of theoretical and conceptual frameworks of the rules of engagements of each and every citizen of the state…

hope this helps

….jet….

i’m not sure if your post is in response to the question i asked above, but thanks for taking time anyway.

interesting you mention revolutions. out of curiosity (if you don’t mind)…..how far do you think we are from this “realization” of the great divide?

my initial response to this kasi is…uhh, medyo malayo pa…the 80% of the populace you mention above are mostly brainwashed with what they have been fed by media, and many more don’t have any access to a computer. let’s say that the 20% prefer to keep the way things are, add to that the filipino’s penchant for being resistant to change (why fix it if it ain’t broke? yuk yuk yuk)…..what could possibly turn it around? i’d be interested to hear your take.

(Revolution by the Beatles has been ringing in my head since I started this post…..starting with the guitar riff…)

… fair enough Joe… on your definition… this makes me conclude that you’re a masochist… hehehe… in a town where i grew up… somewhere in Laguna… its citizens are either farmers or artisans or both. it is one of the three towns of the said province who produces vegetables for the consumption of national capital region. we claim that we have the best lambanog (coconut wine) in the universe. if one does not farm he/she either works as backyard craftsman making slippers or footwear; or selling these stuff at the town proper. we have seasonal crops like lanzones, durian, santol and rambutan…

the daily routine for most of the men is wake up in the morning at around 5:30… go to the boondocks-farm… work on the crops or get the tuba from the coconut tree (for lambanog)… get down from the boondocks at around 11… get drunk with lambanog while having lunch of dishes cooked in coconut milk (ginataan)… from tilapia, taro leaves, escargot… after the drinking spree… they go home and **** their wives and sleep… they are just simply happy with this routine until they’ve lived till 90 or a 100 years…

in the town proper you can see the main streets cluttered with footwear stores where most of the owners are either doctors or well educated folks marketing not only slippers but also food delicacies produced by the other citizens of the town… it has a superb italian restaurant owned by the husband of my lovely yummy former neighbor…

in economics joe, we call it factor endowment. the culture, or whatever you call it, is influenced by economic activities in a locality… point is that ERMITA is not the Philippines… Philippines is not ERMITA… The archipelago has about 120 cities, 1,511 municipalities and 42,008 barangays…. my town is just one of them… they are Filipinos and the citizens on the aggregate behaves differently than the rest…

PS

reserve the beer for the holy week… let’s go to pampanga and watch the stupid flips from the crazy cult called roman catholic cult whip their own stupid selves…

… homer…

revolutions start from realization of the great divide between those who have and those who have not… historical dramas from marie antoinette’s cake to mao zedong’s hammer and sickle are the lessons that the citizens of the archipelago called the Philippines should learn from.

“It is heartening to note that at least Filipino culture does not require suicide for failure . . . “

Hmm…come to think of it, that might be a good requirement for our leaders.