Yes it is No.1 in Asia before but all the things what you said has the other side. Not because you have sources and links referred to were correct. I do not know if you are a Filipino or not but on the way you talk maybe not. Or you are a filipino but afraid to accept the fact. I may say that now, I finally trust our policemen for the first time in my life. Philippines is no.1 in Asia before when Marcos is still the President. Many rich people were against Marcos because he is pro Filipino. Philippines starts to fall when he was dethroned.
I'm not a filipino. My daughter is half filipino. Why is it when anyone says anything bad about the philippines they're a 'closet filipino'? People say that to me all the time. It's like admitting that you know your country is so fucked up that people don't want to be associated with it. While at the same time claiming some sort of moral superiority and high ground. That's called
doublethink. It was best described in the book 1984, which was required reading for me when I was in 8th grade. Because, our education system teaches us critical thinking as opposed to blind subservience.
My favorite quote from 1984...
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.
It's not that he was pro-filipino. He was.. But that's not the reason. The reason is; Filipinos will only do the right thing as opposed to doing what they want when they're forced to by someone pointing a gun at them. I see examples of this every day. Marcos wanted the country to advance. He built a nuclear reactor that's just been sitting there for the last 40 years doing nothing. Meanwhile, the country has the highest electrical costs in almost the entire world despite being a perfect environment for solar, wind and hydro! Meralco and others refused to buy back or credit people for their solar installations. They only started doing it when forced to. Just look at the traffic situation. Look at the Taxis. I take uber every where I go because Taxi drivers will just refuse to take you somewhere unless it's somewhere they feel like going. You have to bribe them to do their jobs. It's insanity. Look at PLDT. They kept their pricing and services the same for years until they were forced by the government to offer more. They'll do anything within their power to stay on top; they even colluded with globe to prevent to the Telstra deal and they bought that wavespace. There was a datacenter in Pasig called IP Converge. They were the best and lowest cost datacenter in the entire country. I know one of the founders personally; he's an american who does business with some of the same people I do business with. PLDT paid 3x more than the company was worth just to prevent competition against their Vitro datacenter. Look at the traffic. The reason the traffic is so bad is because everyone on the road is the most important person in the world. They'll drop off and pick up passengers 3 lanes deep. The private vehicles will ride in 2 different lanes at the same time, use no turn signals, they'll cut people off. People who pull out into the middle of an intersection and prevent movement of traffic in either direction. You have tricycles that drive on main highways / roads causing traffic. I always see a lot of Tricycles on commonwealth.
It's that the society teaches no mututal respect for other humans. Filipinos look at me like I'm an alien. I'll walk 1KM to the nearest 7/11 instead of taking a tricycle. They'll stare at me like 'omg hes so rich why is he walking?'. When I do things like pick up trash off the ground I get stares too. But I can't imagine what they're thinking. People talk shit to my wife because she's married to a foreigner (she is older than I am, I'm 35 she's 38 and well educated -- not some random bar girl like most of these old fat foreigners with 18 year old wives). In my mind, I'm thinking, what the fuck is wrong with these people, why aren't THEY doing this?
Everyone I talk to who does business here always says, Do not do business deals that include 2 filipinos or they will fuck you out of the deal. I have stories from a dozen people who have bad experiences with business deals in the philippines. They all fuck over everyone whenever they can to get what they want. And, to them, this is acceptable. It's not even limited to poor filipinos. Rich filipinos are just as bad. It's the culture that's the problem. If filipinos had the mentality of chinese, japenese, koreans, singaporeans, etc. Then the country would be the crown jewel of asia. As of right now people consider the philippines a bad joke, laughable, and something to be ignored. I tell everyone I talk to do not come here. But It's too late for me. I got sucked in by all the lies and propaganda on the internet. If I could turn back time, I would have gone to singapore or hong kong instead.
The worst part of all of this? Filipinos have an opportunity that NO ONE ELSE IN THE WORLD HAS. There are AMAZING business opportunities in this country for filipinos because of the protectionist nature of the laws and regulations. You can start businesses that I cannot; or would require me to have a filipino business partner... which I will never have because I could never trust them... If you were to use your fucking brain instead of just accepting status quo you could see the areas of society that could be greatly improved by business who are better.
You want to know what I think when I want to start a business? Can I do it twice as good for half the price of the competition? I've only met 1 or 2 filipinos in my 10 years here that actually have what it takes to be successful not only here in the philippines but with their ventures globally. They have this mindset; How can I do it better?
Fuck, if this country were to legalize marijuana it would be the Amsterdam of Asia and the tourists would increase 10x at least. Problem is, someone would need to teach these fools what marijuana looks like. You're not supposed to smoke leaves, seeds and stems. You're not even supposed to have seeds in weed! But, hey, I understand, It's so much effort to identify and cut down the male plants. Might as well just drink some redbull and watch them grow. Bahala na.
"Bahala na" epitomizes everything that is wrong with this country. This is the only country I've ever been to (and I've been to a lot of countries) where people have had this belief. They think that they don't need to do anything because everything that happens is as a result of god's will. 400 years of slavery and subservience has turned the people of this country into slaves. They'll only act properly when there's a slavemaster with his whip. I don't even believe in god and even I know that "
GOD HELPS THOSE THAT HELP THEMSELVES".
Using game theory to describe the philippines. Everyone in the country does what's best for themselves. As a result of doing what's best for themselves they do themselves a disservice. An example of this is the traffic. Everyone tries to cut in and force their way into traffic because they're doing what's best for themselves. As a result of that, they cause more traffic, and slow down their own travel time. By not following a set of rules agreed upon by all (the driving laws, and common decency for driving); they cause, and compound the traffic which they themselves are sitting in. This is what I'm trying to say when I talk about mutual respect, common decency, etc. Like, this is exactly what was presented by John Nash. Watch the movie 'a beautiful mind'.
Another example is my neighbors. When my daughter was 6 months old, they would play loud music to the point it rattled the windows of my house, ALL NIGHT. Mind you, I live in a private executive guarded subdivision. When I complained to them about it they would LAUGH IN MY FUCKING FACE. Then, they had a baby. Now all of a sudden, they need quiet, everyone should be quiet for them. Tough shit, Payback time, guess who's playing loud music at 2AM intentionally just to fuck with them now? Payback is a bitch.
This country will always be a shit hole until the culture and mindset of the filipinos changes. The government will always be corrupt as long as filipinos are corrupt. Find some fucking scruples. Until that happens, this country will only progress with a dictator in charge. Marcos was just a dictator. Duterte is mentally ill and dangerous.
Honestly, you won't understand what I'm saying unless you've been outside of the philippines for a considerable period of time. Even then, you'll make incorrect associations with regards to causality.... False causality fallacy. Even your reply above has false causality fallacy. Like 3 of your 8 sentences in your reply to me contain false causality (the other 5 were attempts to subvert my words and prop up your own beliefs with ad hominem attacks). You don't make the correct associations between cause and effect.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=duterte+rape+joke^ Apparently there's a new rape "joke" that he made that I wasn't even aware of. Because rape is so funny.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=duterte+throws+man+from+helicopterhttp://lmgtfy.com/?q=duterte+hidden+wealthhttp://lmgtfy.com/?q=duterte+misogynisthttp://lmgtfy.com/?q=duterte+is+a+drug+addict^ Fentanyl is like the most hardcore drug in the world. It's more addicting and dangerous than shabu. It causes personality disorders / shifts and issues. This is the same stuff my cousin took. It altered his personality and he became an apathetic jackass just like duterte.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=duterte+tells+soldiers+they+can+rape+womenHe's made attacks against Leni for her looks even though her dead husband is the one who compiled the list of people he's now executing for drugs. He's personally attacked her appearance on several occasions. It's quite obvious he has absolutely zero respect for women. I have to wonder if he thinks they're just there for his own pleasure.
He made comments to a wedding ceremony that he would consummate with the wife. That was before he was even elected. Wasn't able to find the link, but I saw the video on youtube and heard his own words.
Just watch his press conferences online. All he does is make terrible fucking jokes and belittle everyone around him. He's narcissistic.. Thinking he's god's gift to man.. Here's a few links to news reports talking about a psychological profile that was done on him.. He's impulsive, selfish, conceited, narcissistic, and more than likely a psychopath or sociopath as he has little to no regard for anyone else.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/philippines-president-rodrigo-duterte-mental-health-psychological-condition-a7355891.htmlhttp://news.abs-cbn.com/halalan2016/focus/04/19/16/understanding-duterte-what-a-psych-report-sayshttp://www.manilatimes.net/davao-mayor-is-anti-social-narcissistic-psych-report/257323/http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/2000-psych-report-du30-a-mental-caseThis report is backed up by the things he says and does. It's quite obvious that the report is spot on. The guy is incredibly dangerous. This country needs a dictator as I've said previously. But, this guy is pure evil. As I said in my first post. I was pro-duterte until I dug a little deeper and listened to his own words. About 1-2 months before the election I did a 180 and started showing everyone I knew how fucking terrible the guy was. Unfortunately, it was too late. Everyone bought in to the propaganda.
If you want to kill all the drug addicts, just legalize the drugs. Legalization has always caused a decrease in consumption. All of these meth addicts will overdose and kill themselves. Problem solved, darwin awards distributed. Marijuana legalization in america has caused a decrease in marijuana usage. Personally, I smoke for medical reasons. I have some sort of genetic dopamine imbalance with my brain. The closest thing I could characterize it to is novelty seeking personality disorder. It may also be as a result of early onset parkinson's disease -- but my symptoms aren't bad enough to be declared to have parkinson's.... yet.. (Even though multiple family members of mine have parkinsons) Anyway, they would normally give me ritalin (a close cousin to methamphetamine) to control this (which causes an increase in dopamine in the brain). But it doesn't work on me. It makes it worse. The only other thing I've found that works is levodopa/carbidopa compounds (which are a treatment for parkinsons). Taking the Ldopa gives me auditory and visual hallucinations along with intense migraines. The thing that works best for me with the least amount of sideeffects is marijuana. THC is a gaba inhibitor and blocking the release of gaba prevents the reuptake of dopamine that is naturally produced in my brain. There are some side effects, but they're considerably less than any other treatment out there. When I go back to the USA I'm going to get my hands on some 'charolette's web' which is a strain of marijuana that has reduced THC and increased CBD. I'm curious if this strain which should produce little or no 'high' will also correct the imbalance.
