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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 […]
Two Decades On: Did Get Real Philippines Get It Right About Filipino Dysfunction?
The Curious Origins of the Word ‘Scapegoat’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
The term ‘scapegoat’ is well-known: it refers to an innocent person who has to carry the blame for something on behalf of other people. As the Oxford English Dictionary defines the word: the ‘scapegoat’ is ‘one of two goats that was chosen by lot to be sent alive into the wilderness, the sins of the people having been symbolically laid upon it, while the other was appointed to be sacrificed.’
My dad has end stage kidney disease.
For some miracle God helped us find a donor.
The application to the ethics committee is not proceeding because of all the issues with birth certificates, baptismals, marriage certificates misspellings.
The administrative state is infuriating, depressing.
I feel so impotent.
Feeling alone right now. Seems everyone is in take mode. I think I need a break. You can’t give what you don’t have and I am feeling spent right now. Just have zero fucks to give. ZFG.
Feeling melancholy.
Life just seems so unfair.
So sad that I even went off on the kids.
My kiddos if you are reading this and you are older. Your old man says sorry.
Just so incredibly sad.
By Joe America Those who read or comment here now and then recognize that The Society of Honor no longer gets the thousands of reads and active commentary that it once had. Times change, and with them, reading habits. I’m inclined to observe occasionally, “life’s a path, not a destination”. A few or us continue […]
The Future of the Society of Honor
Analysis and Opinion By Joe America Whenever I say I like living in the Philippines people say “well, you’re white and rich so you don’t know what it’s really like.” But if I say, “Man, the Philippines is screwed up” they say something like, “Well, it’s because you Americans colonized us and treated us badly.” […]
The Philippines is a great place to live
I was scrolling through tiktok and got to a video. Was in tears in SECONDS. Songs I had on repeat 2020 still trigger the pain of that year.
Analysis and Opinion By Joe America I wrote the other day that social media is a disease and we are all sick. It is a global pandemic that is so severe that people don’t know they are sick. In the old days, prior to about 1985, we had three main inputs to our brains. What […]
Social media, the disease, and we, the diseased