Sandbagging the opposition

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1. Hahahaha Villar is in deep trouble. It would be interesting to observe how he would decide/act on things now that he has to please both GMA and opposition. Is it true that he’s getting cues from both Erap and GMA?

2. I think the NUJP crying press freedom against Comelec threats to charge two media personalities for electoral sabotage is knee-jerk wrong.

   NUJP should welcome the charge. Comelec must be forced to file those charges so a thorough investigation of last year’s election will happen. And it will be conducted in the courts not by the Comelec commissioners investigating themselves.

   Let everyone stand in front of the fan. Let’s see who gets soiled.

3. “You remove political intervention in economic decisions and you can see that ‘public service’ will only attract two types of persons, either statesmen or masochists, and that will be for the good of the country.”

   Disagree. power all on its own attracts different kinds of people. megalomaniacs, big-time syndicates, idealists..
   removing political intervention in economic decisions would just move corruption from politics into business itself. look at corporate america and you’ll see what i mean. meanwhile, we’ll be at the mercy of luck in who’ll be interested in manning the govt. we’ll cash in if the benevolent win, and we’ll luck out if the crazies win. those who have incentives to at least keep the economy afloat won’t have reason to join in, as we have freed business to swim in their own mess of corruption.

4. I’ve got mixed feelings about “migrant philantropy” though.

   For the same reason that some (including myself) view the high proportion of the value of our economy accounted for OFW remittances as more of disturbing thing than as something to rejoice about, rejoicing in the alleviation of poverty through philantropy (whether by OFWs or whatever charitable work) is pathetic to say the least.

   How long can an entire society SUBSIST in the altruism of an elite minority?

   It is this kind of thinking that erodes self-respect in a people already bankrupt of self-respect.

   Whereas the wealth of TRULY prosperous societies was built on SMART work (note that HARD work is such a 19th Century concept), we seem to have been reduced to pinning hope for poverty alleviation (never mind hope for prosperity) on nothing more than charity.

   This is not simply being victims of whatever bogymen we love to blame (i.e. our favourite “corrupt” politicians, the evil imperialists and ex-colonial masters, the environment, God, Satan, si Bathala, mga dwende, etc.), this is simply a complete lack of imagination.

   It is so boring.

   It is so pathetic.

   mlq3, I beg to differ to “a ray of hope” as your lead-in line into your link to Dennis D. Estopace’s article. I think a more appropriate lead-in phrase would be “a roadmap to mediocrity”.

5. Benign0, by looking at it from a dependency standpoint, i think you’re looking at Migrant Philantrophy with a too cynical eye. After all, how can you be sure that the assistance does not go to developing the productive capacities (aka human capital) of the recipients?

6. Benigno,

   “It is this kind of thinking that erodes self-respect in a people already bankrupt of self-respect.”

   Were/are you the victim of racial discrimination?

7. To all our BRAVE SOLDIERS in Basilan(So Brave! but so neglected!!!!)

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzAduXFyISU

   Where have all the young men gone?
   Long time passing
   Where have all the young men gone?
   Long time ago
   Where have all the young men gone?
   Gone for soldiers every one
   When will they ever learn?
   When will they ever learn?

   Where have all the soldiers gone?
   Long time passing
   Where have all the soldiers gone?
   Long time ago
   Where have all the soldiers gone?
   Gone to graveyards every one
   When will they ever learn?
   When will they ever learn?

   Where have all the graveyards gone?
   Long time passing
   Where have all the graveyards gone?
   Long time ago
   Where have all the graveyards gone?
   Covered with flowers every one
   When will we ever learn?
   When will we ever learn?

8. cvj, a couple of years back I remember seeing an ADB report citing the Philippines having among the lowest return on development funds provided.

   It takes imagination to use money smartly, you know. 😉

   manuelbuencamino, I think I already answered your question a while back, saying I don’t think I’ve been.

   But on second thought, I think my reply in this instance would be that racial discrimination is not an easily defined thing. It can be outright blatant or very subtle. Where does one draw the line?

   Furthermore, I think it is up to the recipient of said “discrimination” (however way this term is defined) whether to consider himself/herself to be a victim or not.

   Victimhood is all in the mind, in my opinion. You either rise up and face whatever is (supposedly) victimising you (which strangely enough, does not make you a victim), or you lay down and choose to die.

   So why do you ask?

9. Benign0: a couple of years back I remember seeing an ADB report citing the Philippines having among the lowest return on development funds provided.

   Although I agree that lack of imagination had a hand in this, one cannot also discount the role our favorite boogeyman corruption played. ADB channels funds through unimaginative and corrupt conduits. OFW philanthropy I would guess – the article didnt explicitly say – would go to scholarship grants and feeding programs for children, and would go directly to NGOs. I dont see that as pathetic at all.

10. re the removal of the pork barrel system,

    agree ako diyan. maganda yan, para naman hindi palipat-lipat ang mga trad pol House members from one president to another every six years, dahil sa pork barrel.

    Let’s say the pork barrel system is still in place after 2010. if mar roxas wins the presidency, yung mga dating trapo LAKAS at KAMPI members ay magiging LP na. Kung si Villar naman ang manalo, lilipat ang mga ito sa NP. We’ve seen it before with FVR, Erap, and GMA getting the majority of the congressmen to switch sides after becoming president.

11. benigno,

    why do I ask?

    because your criticism of Filipinos is based on stereotypes and genralizations like “It is this kind of thinking that erodes self-respect in a people already bankrupt of self-respect.”

    what factual basis do you have to say something so outlandish?

12. I agree with Devils who accurately describes the possible situations of market failure that have occurred in the United States. Same thing happened in Russia where the Russian Mafia and a new breed of oligarchs (most of whom where former Communist Party officials) took over and made billions after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 90’s. As Economist Dani Rodrik mentioned in his blog:

    the shortcomings of governments should not be taken as a given. Just as economists think about how to improve market institutions, they can devote their talent to improving the institutions of government. The informational and rent-seeking costs of government intervention can be ameliorated through appropriate institutional design.

    I think the key phrase above is Institutional Design. I’m all for encouraging entrepreneurship but removing the nexus between politics and the economy is an oversimplification.

    Jeg, thanks for that. You’re right to point out that the channel through which assistance flows matters a lot. That nuance is not captured within Benign0’s analytical framework which as MB says, is based on stereotypes and generalizations.

13. There’s no denying that they are indeed stereotypes and generalisations (just like there are stereotypes like Japanese industriousness and German engineering).

    The fact is, however, that they are spot on.

    Who here is ready to put their hand up and DENY that the Pinoy society IN GENERAL is devoid of imagination?

    If any of you do have the cojones to dispute my assertion that Pinoy society is GENERALLY devoid of imagination, I hope you have some concrete examples and convincing arguments to debunk this assertion. 😉 Up to the challenge? Anyone?

14. “Disagree. power all on its own attracts different kinds of people. megalomaniacs, big-time syndicates, idealists..
    removing political intervention in economic decisions would just move corruption from politics into business itself.”

    when you remove economic incentive for political office, when you transform wealth creation from rent seeking to innovation and market competition, there would less rogues going towards that direction. people respond to economic incentive; same thing with their motivation in politics.

    re corporate america, you are probably talking about enron, martha stewart, etc. that’s true, but most of those enron execs and their kind are now in jail. its because the justice system and the bureaucracy in general is not part of this politics-business rent seeking nexus.

    of course, pork barrel corruption is still an issue there. but the size of the “innovation/market competitive” realm of the american economy is a lot bigger. that’s explain the continuing dynamism of the american economy.

15. Dave, that the Enron Execs eventually got caught does not take away the fact that Energy Deregulation and lack of Corporate oversight in the USA paved the way for the crimes in the first place. As this episode has shown, there are a lot of places where market failures can occur. Government cannot avoid the responsibility for preventing market failures. More importantly, if we want to achieve economic takeoff, government has a responsibility to ensure that markets are created.

16. dave, cvj is right. but that’s exactly why we’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t. corruption just move offices. from political to corporate ones. i think the key lies in having a balance between the two. less political intervention but stricter regulations in honest business practices. can it be achieved? hell if i know. what i do know is that there is no such thing as a foolproof plan. only a working semblance of it.

    and you are wrong to think most of the Enron execs went to jail. the bigger fishes got away scot-free. either by making a deal w/the federal government or by exploiting the legal loopholes.

17. Is Chiz the senator being accused as the new Diva?

    Dae na da nakakadangog sa mga bati nin mga tawong nakakasabay niya.

    Whatever it, I really do not want cheese, am lactose intolerant. Peanut butter na lang.

18. benigno,

    “the fact is, however, that they are spot on.”

    kaya nga stereotype at generalization ang tawag kc hindi spot on.

    stereotype n. an oversimplified standardized image or idea held by one person or group of another

    generalization n. a statement presented as a general truth but based on limited or incomplete evidence.

    “Who here is ready to put their hand up and DENY that the Pinoy society IN GENERAL is devoid of imagination?
    If any of you do have the cojones to dispute my assertion that Pinoy society is GENERALLY devoid of imagination, I hope you have some concrete examples and convincing arguments to debunk this assertion. ”

    No buddy. You prove your assertion, you present concrete examples and convincing arguments because you are the one making the claim.

19. Disagree.

    Politics is not the number one factor that’s stifling entrepreneurship. It’s the general lack of capital that’s number one on the list. Unless your last name is Sy or Ayala, you cannot borrow a single centavo from a bank without collateral. Even if you have collateral, interest rates would be in double digits. Farmers generally use their farmland as collateral to get money for farm inputs. Bye bye farmland if they miss a payment. So some Filipinos just satisfy themselves with establishing sari-sari store type businesses. Small capital, small business, small economy.

20. “No buddy. You prove your assertion, you present concrete examples and convincing arguments because you are the one making the claim.”

    ha ha!

    I thought so.

    Therein lies the problem: when someone insists on proving something that is otherwise so obvious.

    Kawawa nga naman talaga ang Pinoy. 😉

21. Some elements that demonstrate the immense void in Pinoys society where the virtue of IMAGINATION should have been:

    (1) LACK OF ORIGINALITY

    This is what Nick Joaquin had to say:

    ———
    Are we not confusing timidity for humility and making a virtue of what may be the worst of our vices? Is not our timorous clinging to smallness the bondage we must break if we are ever to inherit the earth and be free, independent, progressive? The small must ever be prey to the big. Aldous Huxley said that some people are born victims, or “murderers.” He came to the Philippines and thought us the “least original” of people. Is there not a relation between his two terms? Originality requires daring: the daring to destroy the obsolete, to annihilate the petty. It’s cold comfort to think we haven’t developed that kind of “murderer mentality.”
    ———

    (2) LACK OF SCALE AND REGARD FOR THE BIGGER PICTURE

    Again, the eminent Nick Joaquin at his finest:

    ———
    We work more but make less. Why? Because we act on such a pygmy scale. Abroad they would think you mad if you went in a store and tried to buy just one stick of cigarette. They don’t operate on the scale. The difference is greater than between having and not having; the difference is in the way of thinking. They are accustomed to thinking dynamically. We have the habit, whatever our individual resources, of thinking poor, of thinking petty.
    ———

    (3) SMALLNESS OF MIND

    AN admired Filipino economist, based in New York, surveyed the economic situation here and dolefully intoned: ”What ails the country is that Philippine society is intellectually bankrupt.” Take, for instance, the national debates, she pointed out.

    “They are droll and unintelligent, focused on the trivial or the irrelevant.” When the issues are of some significance, it’s the wrong arguments that prevail, the wrong side wins. Logic and common sense take the backseat to political arguments and the views of the poorly-educated. There seems to be some bases for her disenchantment.

    Just a sample of a VAST body of work articulating the smallness of the Pinoy mind and the immenseness of the imaginative void that envelops our society.

    References:

    Nick Joaquin “A Heritage of Smallness”
    http://www.getrealphilippines.com/agr-disagr/17-4-smallness.html

    The *Manila Bulletin* “The Absence of Common Sense”, 09 April 2000
    http://www.geocities.com/benign0/agr-disagr/10-comsen.html

    Cheer-yo! 😉

22. devoid of imagination, benigs? i give you as proof–come up with a more imaginative claim.

23. benigs,

    update your literature. a heritage of smallness was written centuries ago, when the world was still viewing the boobtube instead of youtube.

24. “The Absence of Common Sense”

    google search for the exact quoted phrase yields 1,200 results. discussion ranges from politics to business to technology to religion, pointing to human practice and relationships, generally speaking. of which, only one wrote about pinoy societal frailty.

    guess who wrote about it? one imaginative pinoy. so who says the pinoy is unimaginative. i take back my earlier posting. kudos to the pinoy author.

25. Kudos indeed. Would you say this character is representative of Pinoys IN GENERAL? 😉

26. benign0, palagay ko nadulas yang pag-type mo sa kapusukan, at ng hinamon kang pangatawanan yang claim mo e nabara ka. Tama si MB, sa balikat mo ang magpatunay ng pinarada mo.

    Kung mahusay at fair ang pagpatunay mo, sa palagay ko, hahangaan ka ng mga nagco-comment dito. Pero kung baliktaran lang ang sagot mo(luma na yan at taktika si gma yan), wala!

27. Well that’s the dilemma now, isn’t it?

    When asked to prove an assertion whose validity is otherwise obvious, we simply convolute the debate even further.

    Given the proverbial 10-year-old observing that “the Emperopr has no clothes”, said Emperors’ handlers can easily complicate the issue by countering with “What qualifies you to say that?” “Do you have PROOF?”.

    And while all that is going on the Emperor meanwhile continues walking around naked.

    Sound like a familiar situation? 😉

28. benign0, all you have is conjecture, nothing more. Unless you have some expertise in this field, some emprical evidence, you end up with nothing more than your own personal observation. You are entitled to that.

29. “Kudos indeed. Would you say this character is representative of Pinoys IN GENERAL?”

    i’d say, statistically, it’s the consistent nature of a nitpicker who indefatigably defines the pinoy frailties as unique only to them and not to other cultures. where this nitpicker–in his long absence from pinas–has failed to realize that in fact there are no more pinoys left in his motherland because everyone has gone just everywhere.

30. Benigno…

    absence of imagination,oversimplification call it what you please.

    I think crab mentality and that won’t work kinda attitude is a great hindrance to that…

    Just look at the electronic jeep,tested in makati,di ba mas madaming it won’t work comments, kesa let’s give it a try.

    Eto na naman ako sa pagiging corny ko..

    Sa kalokohan masasabi mo ba na na kulang sa imagination ang garapal na manloloko ng bayan.

    pati ang mga syndikato na nagkalat dyan sa tabi tabi…

    Lighten up,sir! You are so Pessimistic!

31. it’s not benigs that your observations are totally unfounded, just that they’re too biased–the myopicity of it makes the exercise invalid, ethnographically speaking.

32. From the new “Diva” in the Senate:Remember his promises!

    Mapayapa at pinagpalang pagbati sa inyo!

    Bilang senador, layunin ko po na maiparating ang boses ninyo sa Senado upang sama-sama nating ipaglaban ang tama at labanan ang mali.

    Pangunahing pagtutuunan ko ng pansin ay ang maibalik ang dignidad ng bawat Pilipino nang sa gayon ay taas-noo nating harapin ang mga hamon ng tadhana sa pamamagitan ng pagsulong sa mga sumusunod:

    (1) Disenteng tirahan sa bawat Pilipino ayon sa programa ng Gawad Kalinga (GK), di lamang para sa mahihirap kundi pati na rin sa mga ordinaryong empleyado tulad ng mga guro, pulis, sundalo at iba pang mga kawani;

    (2) Kabuhayan at sapat na pagkakakitaan batay sa sariling kakayahan ng bawat pamilyang Pilipino sa pamamagitan ng micro-finance, skills training, at pagbigay ng prayoridad sa sarili nating mamamayan at kababaihang entrepreneur;

    (3) Pagkakataon ng kabataang Pilipino na makapag-aral at makapagtapos mula mababang paaralan hanggang sa kolehiyo sa pamamagitan ng pagbibigay ng sapat na pondo sa mga state colleges at universities, kaagapay ang pagkilala sa mahalagang papel na ginagampanan ng pribadong sektor sa larangan ng edukasyon;

    (4) Pagkilala sa karapatang makapagpagamot at gumaling sa anumang karamdaman lalung-lalo na ang mga mahihirap at mga may edad;

    (5) Pagtatanggol sa karapatang pantao at pagsupil sa anumang uri ng diskriminasyon;

    (6) Pangangalaga ng ating kalikasan sa pamamagitan ng wastong paggamit nito upang matiyak na ang ating likas na yaman ay mapapakinabangan ng susunod pang mga henerasyon; at

    (7) Isulong at ipaglaban kung anong naaayon sa batas upang makamtan ang katotohanan, katarungan, kalayaan, kapayapaan at pagkakaintindihan nating lahat.

    Ito ang aking mga adhikain at pangarap para sa bawat Pilipino. Hiling at dalangin ko na sama-sama nating pagtulungan na makamtan ang lahat ng ito.

    Ang inyong boses sa Senado,

    CHIZ ESCUDERO

    Home | About Chiz | Senate Agenda | Chiz In Congress

33. To me, it really doesn’t matter if the negative/unproductive character that benigno is pointing out is pinoy specific or not. I find his observation to be true. It will not help us much if we continue to deny it or even use excuses for it.

34. Im just waiting for benign0, the imaginative pinoy, to show us his vaunted creativity by outlining – in highly imaginative ways needless to say – his solution to the general lack of imagination in the unimaginative pinoy. If he can’t post them here, in language free of jargon that even a 12-yr old can understand, then alas, he’s just a typical unimaginative pinoy in the guise of an imaginative one.

35. Meron din akong sariling generalization: na ang mga nagibang bayang pinoy ay nasa isip na malinaw ang kanilang mga matang humatol. Bakit nga naman samantalang mapupula ang mga hasang, may panahon at kuwalta upang maglibang. Ano ka pa at si Juan dela Cruz abala sa kakaisip malagyan ng laman ang tiyan. Iyan ang imagination niya kumakain ng steak!

    Iyang mga salitang, In general, e propaganda lang naman. Eng-eng lit 101 yan, db? So, kung magpapadala ka sa mga salitang tulad niyan na wala namang batayan, nadale ka!

36. “Im just waiting for benign0, the imaginative pinoy, to show us his vaunted creativity by outlining – in highly imaginative ways needless to say – his solution to the general lack of imagination in the unimaginative pinoy”
    ——————————————————-

    I dont think it is for Benigno or anybody to provide an outline. The best thing that people like benigno and Nick Joaquin can do is only to point out such defect. Suggest a general solution like education .

    Parang usapang Gloria rin yan eh. Everybody can point out her defects ( imagined or not 😉 ) and always nitpick. But its really up to her to take heed or not. Do something about it or just ignore it.

37. rego,

    the tact of benigno would only be apt if he is preaching to a choir. For now, at least, that choir would consist of you and him. Obviously, most people here do not share your views.

38. Rego: I dont think it is for Benigno or anybody to provide an outline.

    But rego, our friend benign0 has set the bar really high for himself, and it is only fair that I expect more from him. Whining and complaining and pointing out faults, any unimaginative pinoy can do.

39. benignO,

    Nick Joaquin said this, the economist said that. I want to hear it from you now.

40. rego said
    “I find his observation to be true.”

    Where you looking at a mirror when you observed it?

41. rego said
    “I dont think it is for Benigno or anybody to provide an outline.”

    benignO started it, let him outline his imaginative solution.

42. “All those who want to reform the Philippine politics and economy should therefore strive to remove the nexus between politics and the economy.”

    Can you live without either your heart or lung?

    I think the writer of this should distinguish first between bad politics and good politics. Developed societies evolved from raw tribal political economic systems to todays from complex institutional arrangements. It is the same for all countries. Most do not even know what the term macroeconomic fundamentals mean.

    The writer it seems is convinced that the government has become the executive committee of the rich and powerful in the country. So what is new?

    It is hard to disagree or agree as the writer looks to have a serious lack of appreciation on what economics and politics really mean. Hence his entire premise is flawed.

    “In thinking about the economy, it is essential to try to get the balance between the market and the government or the state right to get good economic performance, and avoid very negative side effects on poverty. In some ways we failed to get that balance right. The central lesson of economics over the last more than 200 years has been Adam Smith’s view about the “invisible hand” — that markets lead, as if by an invisible hand, to efficiency; or that the individual pursuit of self-interest leads, as if by an invisible hand, to economic efficiency.”
    “One of the main results of my work on asymmetric information — which is just a fancy name for saying that different people know different things — was to show that the reason the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is not there. That means that there is an important role for government. Or to put it another way, every game needs rules and referees to avoid chaos, and that is true of the market game as well.” Joseph Stiglitz

    On the other side are those who think free trade never pays. Someone sent us a review from Patrick Buchanan’s recent book, THE GREAT BETRAYAL; How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy.

    “Buchanan was a free trader as recently as 1987,” begins the review. “So he is well versed in the free trade arguments.

    “From 1821 to World War II, with short term exceptions, the American tariffs ranged from 25% to 50% with an average of 40%. This was the period of the American industrial revolution. America was built under the shield of protection. Then from World War II to 1970, tariffs were lowered to 12%. There after they were cut to 5%.”

    “All four presidents on Mt Rushmore were protectionists.”

43. “Kudos indeed. Would you say this character is representative of Pinoys IN GENERAL?”

    you mean obsession-compulsion?

    what do you reckon, mate?

44. Benigno,

    (1) LACK OF ORIGINALITY

    What do you call the first revolution against colonialism in Asia, timid and petty?

    What do you call the first peaceful overthrow of a dictator in the history of the world, unoriginal? Did we copy that from Martians?

    2) LACK OF SCALE AND REGARD FOR THE BIGGER PICTURE

    “We work more but make less. Why? Because we act on such a pygmy scale. Abroad they would think you mad if you went in a store and tried to buy just one stick of cigarette. They don’t operate on the scale.”

    In Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, New York City, and Washington DC, what I thought was uniquely Filipino turned out to be….NOT! I have bought cigarettes by the stick in those cities from non-Filipino storeowners and vendors. They do operate on that scale.

    Besides, did you notice that cigarette manufacturers now sell cigarettes in packs of less than ten sticks?

    Maybe they learned from Filipinos?

    (3) SMALLNESS OF MIND

    “They are droll and unintelligent, focused on the trivial or the irrelevant.” When the issues are of some significance, it’s the wrong arguments that prevail, the wrong side wins. Logic and common sense take the backseat to political arguments and the views of the poorly-educated. There seems to be some bases for her disenchantment.”

    In 2004, the issue foremost in America was the Iraq war and Bush junior campaigned for a constitutional amendment against same sex marriages.
    And he won.

    Does that make America intellectually bankrupt?
    ———————————————

    Do you realize now how sterotypes and generalities come to be?

    You can’t walk into a US prison or a welfare line and conclude that there is something genetically or culturally wrong with blacks just because you see a lot of them there. You have to look at the BIG PICTURE!

    You can’t look at a poor country and conclude that they are stupid, small, unoriginal, lazy, lack self esteem and all that just because they buy “tingi.”

    Only a SMALL MIND would extrapolate biases into a general rule!

45. LACK OF ORIGINALITY?

    The Spoliarium measures four meters in height and seven meters in width. The painting was submitted by Luna to the Exposicion Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1884, where it garnered a gold medal.

    LACK OF SCALE AND REGARD FOR THE BIGGER PICTURE?

    The Manila galleon were the largest ships built anywhere up to that time. In the sixteenth century, they averaged from 1,700 to 2,000 tons, were built of Philippine hardwoods and might carry a thousand passengers. The Concepcion, wrecked in 1638, was 43 to 49 m (140-160 feet) long and displacing some 2,000 tons. Most of the ships were built in the Philippines and only eight in Mexico.

    SMALLNESS OF MIND?

    Eduardo San Juan – Filipino Inventor: Mechanical engineer, Eduardo San Juan (aka The Space Junkman) worked on the team that invented the Lunar Rover or Moon Buggy. Eduardo San Juan is considered the primary designer of the Lunar Rover. San Juan was also the designer for the Articulated Wheel System. Prior, to the Apollo Program, Eduardo San Juan worked on the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM).

    benignO,

    Are you talking about yourself?

46. “a heritage of smallness” is an excellent essay, i give it as one of many readings whenever i conduct docent training at the ayala museum. but it’s one view, and one that has to be tempered with others.

    and i think the truths in joaquin’s essay have been taken to extreme lengths by benign0. in terms of imagination, at least we haven’t had to endure national campaigns to teach imagination, the way singapore’s trying. and you only have to survey the region (and the world) to see how much filipinos are relied on as creatives in advertising, graphic design, animation, etc.

47. Come to think, of it…

    Graphic design and animation :

    60s: The Flinstones and the rest of the HannaH Barbera cartoons…
    recenetly,the Incredibles and some more recent ones.

    Tinge mentality
    came from Filipinos: an ingenious way to show how can you buy something when you can’t afford them.

    Kenny Roger’s American GM visittingRP,thought of breaded chicken not from KFC but From Jollibeee chickenjoy

    But wait…There is more..

    The ETC. part

48. Me tama din naman sa citations nya kay Nick Joaquin.Re:Daring to destroy the obsolete

    I mentioned the E-jeep..bakit nga ba di natin mapakawalan ang beloved jeepney natin,kahit na envrontmentally friendly version,ayaw pa din natin.Isali na din natin ang mini bus dyan.

    Not only that,bakit ayaw natin pakawalan ang mga 70s Totota Coronas,corollas,mitsubishi lancer LTypes,box types natin…

    In that part I agree with the Nick Joaquin citation….

    Is this another Cause and effect thing,that because we cannot afford to,that is why?

    The othe others I do not agree at all,like the part where we debate nonesensense based on a certain economist…

    have you watched C span or cnn lately and remain awake,based on their supposedy lively issues of the bigger picture?

49. Tingi will not work for the US for the following reasons:

    1. The climate encourages people especially in the East Coast to hoard . Before winter, people buy several pounds of meat and poultry and store them in the freezers. They also buy veggies and dry them so they have supply during off season.

    2. Even with a convenience store that sells “tingi”, a US consumer would prefer to buy in pack so as to save time in preparing oneself for the weather outside everytime he goes out to replenish his stock. Sa Pilipinas, kahit nakashort pwedeng lumabas.

    3. It is not true that it is only in the Phils where you can buy one head of garlic. Even in the supermarket here, you can buy one or two because they are sold by weight. This applies to vegetables such as one piece of talong, 1/4 of squash, two pieces of tomatoes or one stick of celery. It is not because they’re small-minded but because they are intelligent enough to know that there may be only one household member who does not need to buy a pack or by the dozen.

    Hindi lang namamalengke yong author.

    4. Most of the farm produce are transported by truckers across different states. They got to be sold before their expiry dates so usually they come in big packs for fast disposal at cheaper prices.

    4. Cheese, shampoos, soap, mouthwashes come in small packs now. Practically parang tingi na rin.

    5. Rice come in smallpacks, not sacks.

    You can not expect Benigno to come up with his own recommendations. Even the ideas that he’s selling in his website are not his own. Talking about originality.

    I tried that but it is just like squeezing for juice from a rock. Talking about smallness of mind.

    Then he can not distinguish a mission from action plan.

50. “and you only have to survey the region (and the world) to see how much filipinos are relied on as creatives in advertising, graphic design, animation, etc.”

    i think, the unimaginative people Benigno’s pointing out are those that deal in business, not in arts and literature. in that sense, he is somewhat right. our businessmen don’t innovate. and if there are those who do, their products are not supported by the masa bec the common pinoy consumer lack imagination (tingi-tingi mentality) and unconventional innnovative products come off as snobbish for them

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