The title of this post is taken from a line in the new movie Joker. One possible interpretation of the movie is that it is about a man coming to terms with himself. He embraces his insanity with gusto. It's key to note that in the movie we do not witness a downward spiral into madness. The man has been mad from the get-go. It is part of who he is. His insanity is innate. Putting on the clown mask allows Arthur Fleck to hide his identity and become the Joker.
You could say Arthur Fleck's insanity is part of his own personal culture. In the same way the culture of the Philippines is also innately insane. Foisting a foreign culture upon the Philippines only exacerbates this insanity by allowing their true identity to be masked.
To adapt another line from the movie:
What do you get when you cross Western culture with a society that has no idea how it works in spirit and treats it like trash? You get what you deserve!
Ever since the Americans came and left the Philippines has tried its hardest to mimic a modern republican state with free democratic values but this is absolutely impossible because Western culture is completely alien to the Philippines. Here is a very relevant quote from Imperium by Francis Parker Yockey.
The Philippines finally has universal healthcare. Signed into law this year. But guess who's going to be running it? The corrupt PhilHealth!
Hoo-hoo-haaaaaaa!!!! Top level PhilHealth executives allegedly run a mafia where they file fake claims and rake in millions in a race to see who can steal the most from fake dialysis patients. Surely they are the best group to run the new Universal Health Care system.
Universal healthcare no doubt means the government want's their citizens to be healthy right? I guess that's why they cut the budget of the DOH and the PGH!
Hoo-hoo-haaaaa!!! Cutting the budget to the hospital all the poor use and cutting funds to the DOH in the midst of two serious epidemics! What's even funnier is the budgets for the PGH and DOH have been restored but with one caveat; more pork for Duterte!
Let's just get straight to the punchlines and avoid all these long articles shall we?
Ferdinand Marcos plundered this country with one had and handed out bread and circuses with the other to placate the people and many believe his time of dictatorship is the golden days of the Philippines!
Cops bust drug suspects but keep the drugs to resell them in order to bust suspects but keep the drugs to resell them in order to.....!
During every election season scores die at the hands of motorcycle assassins!
Every year scores of politicians die at the hands of motorcycle assassins!
The Department of Tourism is so desperate for tourists they are marketing malls as tourist attractions!
The world's first anti-corruption court is the Philippines' very own Sandiganbayan and ever since it's founding has been backlogged for years!
The Philippines' Constitution, rather then being merely a set of rules for how each branch of government should function, sets forth a broad social program that has not and cannot be implemented!
The Philippines has had several constitutions over the years, casting them aside and rewriting them as they see fit which shows they do not know how a Republic should function nor can they enter into the genius of such a government. In contrast the USA has had one constitution for 230 years!
OFW culture has created a subculture of leeches who wait around at home for their remittances and without the remittances from abroad a large part of the economy would collapse!
Though these leeches spend their remittances and prop up the economy the nation still has an underclass of do-nothings lazing about who contribute nothing of substance to the nation or their community!
OFW culture only exists because all the jobs in the Philippines pay little and so many people remain without training or education and are forced to be maids to rich Arabs and Chinese!
Those OFWs who do have training such as nurses and engineers take their skills out of the country causing a massive brain drain and leaving the Philippines the worse off!
The greatest technological feat of the past 50 years is the internet where all human knowledge is stored and accessible but Filipinos only use the internet for social media and to play League of Legends!
Those who do know how to use the internet use it to dupe their fellow citizens into swallowing propaganda which is why many people believe Marcos' time of dictatorship is the golden days of the Philippines!
Every service both in the private and public sector in the Philippines has a black market and politicians are very willing to let those markets flourish so long as they get their kickbacks and votes!
Laws are written and passed with no way to implement them or if they are implemented are done in a manner contrary to what is stated in the law! (See the GCTA law and RA 9003)
The PNP is tasked with enforcing traffic laws but nobody is monitoring the roads for overloaded motorcycles, overload tricycles, speeding vehicles, vehicles not using headlights at night, vehicles not staying in their lanes, and vehicles not obeying the laws in general!
The Philippines is a society where no one trusts anyone else which is why every business has an armed guard and every house is surrounded by a fence topped with barbed wire with several dogs roaming both inside and outside the premises!
A culture that values surface over substance!
A culture that professes to be Christian but remains aloof from the solemn mysteries of the Trinity and God manifested in the flesh instead clinging ferociously to the pomp and idolatry of the Catholic church and the excesses of the Protestant church!
The only Christian nation in Asia which is also among the most corrupt in the world because the tenets of the Gospel have not penetrated into the souls of the people!
When the Americans set up shop the nation gradually accepted American jurisprudence practices but to this day there are no jury trials, the presumption of innocence is scoffed at as suspects are paraded before cameras like big game caught on the savannah, lawyers are regularly murdered, the right to a speedy trial is in word only as some trials take decades to reach a verdict, heinous crimes such as murder are settled financially, the PNP dissuades victims from filing charges against those who have harmed them, and many crimes only go to trial with assistance of private prosecutors!
Whoo-Hoo-Hoo-Hoo-Ha-Ha!!!!!
You could say Arthur Fleck's insanity is part of his own personal culture. In the same way the culture of the Philippines is also innately insane. Foisting a foreign culture upon the Philippines only exacerbates this insanity by allowing their true identity to be masked.
To adapt another line from the movie:
What do you get when you cross Western culture with a society that has no idea how it works in spirit and treats it like trash? You get what you deserve!
Ever since the Americans came and left the Philippines has tried its hardest to mimic a modern republican state with free democratic values but this is absolutely impossible because Western culture is completely alien to the Philippines. Here is a very relevant quote from Imperium by Francis Parker Yockey.
A central point when thinking about this subject is the growth and now the total supremacy of the Western idea of technics. The entire world of science is a reflection of Western man and no other, and we have seen Western technics conquer the world. We see our science being appropriated to varying degrees and in varying manners by every simian Culture on the planet which has advanced beyond the arboreal stage. The stone age Negro denizens of Africa, Haiti, New Guinea and the southern Philippines are fascinated by clocks, radios and even sails. When an American city wants to get rid of its old street cars, it sells them to Amerindian Mexico. The Semitic Arabs ride their Cadillacs and use rifles made in Belgium; both of which are bought with the gold of oil royalties from Wall Street, Dallas or London. The Oriental Chinese have learned well, and are expected to explode an atomic bomb at any moment. And even the half-Western Russians, from the days of Peter the Great, or even Rurik, have constructed their ships, cannon and rockets with European engineers. But does this mass appropriation of Western technics have the slightest effect on the inner and distinctive soul of the culture which appropriates? The answer is no, and we should not allow our foolish pride to think otherwise.
https://www.solargeneral.org/wp-content/uploads/library/imperium-ulick-varange-francis-parker-yockey.pdfThe "this subject" Yockey is referring to is the idea of the universality of all cultures and all men. The fact is all men are not created equal nor are all cultures men create equal. That is why a society like the Philippines appropriating Western culture and completely failing is not a tragedy but a comedy. What else could one expect? So let's have a laugh.
The Philippines finally has universal healthcare. Signed into law this year. But guess who's going to be running it? The corrupt PhilHealth!
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| https://tribune.net.ph/index.php/2019/08/18/philhealth-corruption-incurable/ |
Hoo-hoo-haaaaaaa!!!! Top level PhilHealth executives allegedly run a mafia where they file fake claims and rake in millions in a race to see who can steal the most from fake dialysis patients. Surely they are the best group to run the new Universal Health Care system.
Universal healthcare no doubt means the government want's their citizens to be healthy right? I guess that's why they cut the budget of the DOH and the PGH!
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| https://www.philstar.com/nation/2019/10/01/1956333/pgh-budget-cut-p456-million |
“The PGH is often the first option and the last resort of the poor and middle class families to get the best medical treatment,” he said.
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| https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/24/19/doh-budget-for-2020-cut-by-p166-b-amid-measles-polio-rise-garin |
Hoo-hoo-haaaaa!!! Cutting the budget to the hospital all the poor use and cutting funds to the DOH in the midst of two serious epidemics! What's even funnier is the budgets for the PGH and DOH have been restored but with one caveat; more pork for Duterte!
Let's just get straight to the punchlines and avoid all these long articles shall we?
Ferdinand Marcos plundered this country with one had and handed out bread and circuses with the other to placate the people and many believe his time of dictatorship is the golden days of the Philippines!
Cops bust drug suspects but keep the drugs to resell them in order to bust suspects but keep the drugs to resell them in order to.....!
During every election season scores die at the hands of motorcycle assassins!
Every year scores of politicians die at the hands of motorcycle assassins!
The Department of Tourism is so desperate for tourists they are marketing malls as tourist attractions!
The world's first anti-corruption court is the Philippines' very own Sandiganbayan and ever since it's founding has been backlogged for years!
The Philippines' Constitution, rather then being merely a set of rules for how each branch of government should function, sets forth a broad social program that has not and cannot be implemented!
The Philippines has had several constitutions over the years, casting them aside and rewriting them as they see fit which shows they do not know how a Republic should function nor can they enter into the genius of such a government. In contrast the USA has had one constitution for 230 years!
OFW culture has created a subculture of leeches who wait around at home for their remittances and without the remittances from abroad a large part of the economy would collapse!
Though these leeches spend their remittances and prop up the economy the nation still has an underclass of do-nothings lazing about who contribute nothing of substance to the nation or their community!
OFW culture only exists because all the jobs in the Philippines pay little and so many people remain without training or education and are forced to be maids to rich Arabs and Chinese!
Those OFWs who do have training such as nurses and engineers take their skills out of the country causing a massive brain drain and leaving the Philippines the worse off!
The greatest technological feat of the past 50 years is the internet where all human knowledge is stored and accessible but Filipinos only use the internet for social media and to play League of Legends!
Those who do know how to use the internet use it to dupe their fellow citizens into swallowing propaganda which is why many people believe Marcos' time of dictatorship is the golden days of the Philippines!
Every service both in the private and public sector in the Philippines has a black market and politicians are very willing to let those markets flourish so long as they get their kickbacks and votes!
Laws are written and passed with no way to implement them or if they are implemented are done in a manner contrary to what is stated in the law! (See the GCTA law and RA 9003)
The PNP is tasked with enforcing traffic laws but nobody is monitoring the roads for overloaded motorcycles, overload tricycles, speeding vehicles, vehicles not using headlights at night, vehicles not staying in their lanes, and vehicles not obeying the laws in general!
The Philippines is a society where no one trusts anyone else which is why every business has an armed guard and every house is surrounded by a fence topped with barbed wire with several dogs roaming both inside and outside the premises!
A culture that values surface over substance!
A culture that professes to be Christian but remains aloof from the solemn mysteries of the Trinity and God manifested in the flesh instead clinging ferociously to the pomp and idolatry of the Catholic church and the excesses of the Protestant church!
The only Christian nation in Asia which is also among the most corrupt in the world because the tenets of the Gospel have not penetrated into the souls of the people!
When the Americans set up shop the nation gradually accepted American jurisprudence practices but to this day there are no jury trials, the presumption of innocence is scoffed at as suspects are paraded before cameras like big game caught on the savannah, lawyers are regularly murdered, the right to a speedy trial is in word only as some trials take decades to reach a verdict, heinous crimes such as murder are settled financially, the PNP dissuades victims from filing charges against those who have harmed them, and many crimes only go to trial with assistance of private prosecutors!
Whoo-Hoo-Hoo-Hoo-Ha-Ha!!!!!
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| Laughter is the only appropriate response when contemplating the Philippines |
In short in the Philippines we live in a society which is quite miraculous in that there is complete anarchy but somehow it doesn't all fall to pieces. What would have happened had the Spanish never landed on the shores of these islands? What would have happened had the US never taken possession of this nation? Would they still be living in bamboo huts and wearing loincloths like any other tropical tribe? Just as the Joker wears his mask of clown paint Filipinos wear the mask of Western Civilisation pretending they are modern men because they have cell phones. Wash away that mask and strip off that suit and what is left? The emaciated body of an insane man.
If anyone can find it, I suggest reading "Witness to History" by Charles E. Bohlen. Chapter 4 or 5 covers his time in the Philippines; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/549941.Witness_to_History_1929_1969
ReplyDeleteThanks for the recommendation. Found a PDF already. Chapter 25 is about his time in Manila. Page 452 is very relevant but most of that chapter is about him wishing to be back in Moscow. Very interesting. I will certainly be posting about this. Thanks.
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