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Two Decades On: Did Get Real Philippines Get It Right About Filipino Dysfunction?
By Karl GarciaOriginally inspired by GetRealPhilippines.com’s essay, first published on August 20, 2002. In the early 2000s, Get Real Philippines (GRP) struck a nerve. At a time when political instability, corruption, and moral fatigue defined the national mood, GRP’s essays offered a bracing diagnosis: the Philippines was not merely suffering from bad leadership—it was crippled … Continue reading
How to pick JoeAm’s brain
Analysis and Opinion By Joe America The Society of Honor blog by Joe America has produced 1,880 articles, most about Philippine affairs. It has generated over 180,000 comments that provide additional depth and insights. These are all open for examination by AI tools such as Gemini or ChatGPT. What can you explore? Any political name, … Continue reading
Dear President Marcos, kindly don’t kiss America’s patootie
Analysis and Opinion By Joe America I was highly disturbed last week by news videos showing the acting American ambassador to Manila visiting an ICI meeting. The video showed Filipinos treating this acting guy as a movie star, and the movie star enjoying his role. He should not have been there. Philippine justice is a … Continue reading
When computers run human thinking
Analysis and Opinion By Joe America We are explorers, each and every one of us, moving forward, because there is no backward, into the era in which computers do human thinking. The flood has begun and we already are finding it hard to tell who wrote that, a human or a machine? Pictures and videos … Continue reading
How to detect nonsense in your daily reading
Analysis and Opinion By Joe America I was amusing myself on Twitter the other day engaging with a US resident who criticized the Philippines in response to my post that jabbed at the craziness going on in the US these days. He was trolling me, I was trolling him, then out of my head rolled … Continue reading
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