Weekly Brief
The Philippine Opposition continue to exploit Filipinos' infamous colonial mentality by using foreign media and celebrities as sounding boards for their dishonest propaganda.
In review and in prospect
Many Filipinos continue to sport minds within which relics of their past under the thumb of imperial powers — to borrow a bit of woke lingo — “continue to live rent-free”. The habit of exploiting this little quirk of the Filipino psyche, better known as their infamous colonial mentality, is something the Opposition seem to be unable to break. Well, that and the idea that former “vice president” Leni Robredo continues to be their “leader”. Funny enough, Robredo is overseas on speaking engagements where her key agenda is to vent her frustrations over a system she giddily signed up to that delivered her a clear and resounding thumbs down from the Filipino people.
Robredo only follows a trail blazed by her ally and Nobel “Peace Prize” laureate Maria Ressa. Ressa, also CEO of opposition “social news network” Rappler, had spent at least ten years on the overseas speaking circuit doing the same — hobnobbing with a who’s who of celebrity “journalists” and cultivating a personal brand around the notion that she is a “victim” of an “assault on press freedom” supposedly perpetrated by the Philippine government. On cue, these “journalists” parrot the narrative in their own “reports” and “stories” not bothering to validate these views using independent sources. Robredo now takes up the same thematic approach in her own overseas frolic getting herself in front of anyone who could be bothered to listen to wax drama over the “unfair” nature of the Philippines’ democratic system seeing how she had suffered such a catastrophic defeat in this year’s national elections.
Many Filipinos who still haven’t gotten on top of that colonial mentality they were raised to embrace still regard foreign points of view as necessarily trumping any idea, viewpoint, or outcome of indigenous origins — such as, for example, the results of a national election. As such, using foreign — specially American or Western European — platforms, settings, and personalities as sounding boards for their dishonest media campaigns remains a potent Opposition weapon of mass persuasion. Who then are the true “nationalists”? It is difficult to argue that partisans that make up today’s Opposition fit the bill seeing how they prove today that perpetuating the Philippines’ debilitating colonial mentality works towards their dishonest interests.
Last week’s blog posts
The Mandate of Pinoy Entertainment Is To Protect Baduy
October 22, 2022 by Gogs
"Baduy is anything or anybody severely lacking in the following traits: wit, reverence, originality, irony, self awareness, nuance, IQ and dignity. Our local TV industry operates on a 3 word mandate : appeal to baduys."
Sure, ban K-dramas. While we’re at it, let’s ban Filipino teleseryes too!
October 20, 2022 by benign0
"Rather than entertainment mirroring society, it seems it is society that is mirroring entertainment in the Philippines. Seen in this light, it can be said that television dramas (of the lame sort Filipinos are addicted to) are a serious social cancer in developing countries like the Philippines."