How can the Philippines get out of the mud?

Posted by JoeAm on October 8, 2020 · 101 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Irineo B. R. Salazar Will Villanueva figuratively struck me with his comment to my article “Towards FILIPINO modernity”: “The Philippines is next-door neighbor to the Garden of Eden, what we may call Ayala Alabang Gilid, not Village, a cardboard and tape settlement that amazingly has a long shelf life, unable to … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Culture and Arts, Education, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government

Towards FILIPINO modernity

Posted by JoeAm on October 5, 2020 · 68 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Irineo B. R. Salazar The Philippines today is a many-layered mess. Its complex history has thrust it into a crisis of modernity described by Randy David as follows: A transition is a particularly confusing stage – marked by what Gramsci once called the dying of the old and the inability of … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Culture and Arts, Economy, Education, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government, Religion

Distance learning is cool; classrooms are so 1900s

Posted by JoeAm on October 2, 2020 · 32 Comments 

  Analysis and opinion By Joe America This blog article is being written by dictation. This is a skill I learned from my son who is undertaking distance learning. It seems to me that distance learning is the future. The classroom is so 1900s. Technology is the way of the world today. We should use … Continue reading →

Category Culture and Arts, Education, Family/Parenting/Children, Philippine Government, Technology/Internet

The Philippines is morally bankrupt. What are we to do about it?

Posted by JoeAm on September 22, 2020 · 1 Comment 

Opinion By Joe America If the Philippines is a Catholic nation, or otherwise religious, how can it be morally bankrupt? It has a Constitution and laws. It has a broad educational system that teaches honesty and doing right things. Yet the nation is morally bankrupt. Corrupt, incompetent, and fake in the sense that it persecutes … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Culture and Arts, Economy, Education, Philippine Government

Widening Philippine Horizons

Posted by JoeAm on September 20, 2020 · 7 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Irineo B. R. Salazar The Philippines is an enigma to many. There is the “Heritage of Smallness” (Nick Joaquin) which doesn’t scale well, as I have written in “The National Village”. There is a certain insularity which I think is the result of having gone From the Edge to the Middle … Continue reading →

Category Culture and Arts, Economy, Education, Foreign Affairs and Defense, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government, Religion