Weekly Brief
The Yellowtards believe theirs is THE good movie. Filipinos opted to watch A good movie instead.
In review and in prospect
Should you watch a movie that sucks?
That is of course a question that can only be answered the person holding the 300 pesos she would to spend on a movie ticket. It seems “thought leaders” of the Philippine Opposition don’t see it that way. For them the movie that fits their partisan agenda — of late, Vincent M. Tañada’s Katips: The Movie — is entitled to its audience. This sort of thinking is what fuels the rampage across social media that Opposition partisans have been mounting over the last couple of weeks. These sorts of people regard the value proposition of the product they are hawking as one based on some sort of moral ascendancy conferred on it by some authority or another. In this case, this “authority” is none other than their lot.
Opposition partisans enjoin Filipinos to watch their movie because it is the good one — not because it is a good one.
This is the very same thinking that lost them an entire nation. In the case of the Katips debacle, Opposition partisans believed the market for entertainment is a command market. They applied the same thinking with fatal consequences in the campaign leading to this year’s national elections — believing in their little black hearts that the electorate was one they could command to choose (or at least emotionally-blackmail into choosing) the “right” candidate. “Right” here being their anointed one, then “vice president” Leni Robredo. Today, Katips is the righteous entertainment option, they tell us.
Ultimately, however, it is the ordinary Filipino who holds that 300 bucks just as, back during the elections, it was the ordinary Filipino who held that priceless vote. The Opposition seem to have not learnt anything from the latter experience as, evidently, they are in the midst of doing the same thing over again and, bizarrely, expecting different results.
Last week’s blog posts
Another critique of Marxism and Wokeness: Hegel’s Dialectic and other Philosophical roots
August 4, 2022 by ChinoF
"In popular culture, many people have noticed how today’s TV shows and movies seem to cater to the woke agenda. Not only are there moves to have more LGBT characters, but also moves to rewrite established characters as LGBT."