Is Pinoy DNA, Not The System, The REAL Problem Among Filipinos? (Debunking Jason VOORHEES' Arguments Written On Get Real Philippines)

Jason VOORHEES.
Typing nonsense comments at Get Real Philippines (GRP)
since well... I DUNNO!

I feel so stupid that I didn't write this post last Halloween. It's because some idiot called Jason posted extreme nonsense on Get Real Philippines (GRP). Talks for constitutional reform are going on right now. However, Jason VOORHEES (as I prefer to call him, though I unintentionally misspelled it as VORHEES) said this nonsense:

This is the start of the LONG-WINDED argument I got into with Jason VOORHEES. The guy insists that the Marcos Empire (1973-1986) was a "parliamentary" form of government. The argument is weak and he doesn't understand the evidence he's ranting. Please, Cesar Virata was nothing more than an executive assistant while Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr. ruled as an EMPEROR in practice. If Jason VOORHEES had done better readings -- the amendments leaned towards a hyper-presidential system that made Marcos a PRESIDENT FOR LIFE. Marcos would've established a monarchy and Bobong Marcos would've been king if it wasn't for EDSA!

Now, for Jason VOORHEES' assumption of Pinoy DNA:

Here's a comment from Jason VOORHEES in which he insists on the Pinoy DNA theory. Doesn't this sound familiar? It sounds pretty much like Benign0, the webmaster of GRP! Benign0 would rather feed trolls and whine than come up with solutions. CoRRECT Philippines had written an argument against Benign0's argument and here's an excerpt:

To those who may not know the whole story, Benign0 was once upon a time this writer’s friend and colleague. Together with another person, 3 of us created the “Get Real Squad” which aimed to wake Filipinos up to understand that there were some serious problems in the Philippines and in Filipino Culture that needed rectification. That group grew in number, with Ben Kritz joining in 2007 and a huge bunch of others joining in 2009.

While Benign0 wrote a lot of articles that essentially talked about the weaknesses inherent in the Philippines and pointed to Filipino Culture as one of its major (if not the major) causes, yours truly acknowledged those same things that Benign0 brought up but also sought to provide practical solutions that would in fact ameliorate the problems found in Philippine Society and simultaneously allow Filipino Culture to improve. One of those solutions was Constitutional Reform.

I argued that the Economic Liberalization aspect of Constitutional Reform (aka “Agenda number 1 of the CoRRECT™ Three Point Agenda”) would help solve the most glaring (but highly under-appreciated) problem of the Philippines today: Massive Unemployment and Underemployment. This reform initiative would entail getting rid of the anti-Foreign Investment provisions of the 1987 Constitution and thus allow Multinational Companies and Foreign Direct Investors to more freely come into the Philippines and create jobs for locally-based Filipinos.

I used the example of Singapore and many other countries in ASEAN whose efforts at fighting poverty and unemployment were all based on getting rid of restrictions against FDI and this immediately translated into higher FDI in-flows and eventually greater job-creation and real and sustainable GDP growth.

But Benign0 suddenly went out to attack that very solution I had suggested. His reason? He insinuates that Filipinos are not ready for the entry of FDI and that Filipinos must first “improve their culture” before FDI is allowed to come in.

(Did other countries in ASEAN even do that whole “everyone needs to change their culture before FDI’s come in” bit? Malaysia certainly didn’t. Indonesia didn’t. Singapore didn’t. Vietnam didn’t. Outside of ASEAN, China and India didn’t. In fact, it was the entry of FDI that changed their cultures to become more competitive!)

Apparently, he doesn’t understand how FDI works as seen in his inability to understand the difference between FDI and OFW Remittances. Worse, despite Benign0 touting himself as some kind of “Filipinos must improve their culture”-warrior, Benign0 has proven to be totally deficient when it comes to understanding what “culture change” requires.

See, it’s easy to tell Filipinos that they need to “improve their culture.” It’s easy to tell Filipinos that they’re “too spendthrift” and that “Filipinos need to learn to live within their means” or that “Filipinos need to learn how to handle money.” Those are the whining rants that have repeatedly come out of Benign0 ever since he decided to launch attacks on my attempts to complement his rants with my solution-proposals.

But Benign0 has never mentioned anything about how those culture changes he says must happen are supposed to happen. He thinks that blogging about it and simply telling Filipinos that “Filipinos are lousy at business” or “lousy at managing money” will cause Filipinos to improve their business acumen or learn to manage money better.

Benign0 seems to have forgotten that very often, the cultural inclinations of people are actually the end result of how their environment or their “eco-system” forces or induces them to act.

And that reminds me of Benign0's cluelessness on ECONOMICS last COVID-19. I wrote an article debunking it but HE. NEVER. GETS. IT. He's probably just living in some ivory tower in Australia. Apparently, why Benign0 chooses to feed trolls and tolerates Jason VOORHEES' idiotic comments is this -- they both agree in some way. They agree that Filipinos might be "hopelessly lost". To Jason VOORHEES -- his argument is that Filipino politicians are "unique on their earn" and that there's no accountability in their DNAs.

If Jason VOORHEES would just do more research and takes things INTO CONTEXT -- Singapore was once PART OF MALAYSIA. Most Filipinos are of MALAYSIAN or INDONESIAN descent. I mentioned Malaysia and Singapore and asked Jason VOORHEES, "Does that ring a bell?" However, Jason VOORHEES continues to post his nonsense. Jason VOORHEES occasionally rampages GRP comments section every now and then. However, something Jason VOORHEES needs to read about Filipino ancestry:

The ethnically diverse people of the Philippines collectively are called Filipinos. The ancestors of the vast majority of the population were of Malay descent and came from the Southeast Asian mainland as well as from what is now Indonesia. Contemporary Filipino society consists of nearly 100 culturally and linguistically distinct ethnic groups. Of these, the largest are the Tagalog of Luzon and the Cebuano of the Visayan Islands, each of which constitutes about one-fifth of the country’s total population. Other prominent groups include the Ilocano of northern Luzon and the Hiligaynon (Ilongo) of the Visayan islands of Panay and Negros, comprising roughly one-tenth of the population each. The Waray-Waray of the islands of Samar and Leyte in the Visayas and the Bicol (Bikol) of the Bicol Peninsula together account for another one-tenth. Filipino mestizos and the Kapampangans (Pampango) of south-central Luzon each make up small proportions of the population.

It would be easy to mistake a Malaysian or Indonesian for a FILIPINO. Hokkien speakers from the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia use the word huan-a for the MALAY PEOPLE. If Malaysia can be better (and Malaysians share the SAME DNA as most Filipinos) then why is the Philippines not doing as good as Malaysia? The answer lies with the SYSTEM itself. How can Jason VOORHEES explain why Malaysia is doing better BASED ON DNA? Why is former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad better than Filipino politicians if DNA was just the only basis?

One needs to look at SUCCESSFUL FILIPINOS ABROAD vs. DYSFUNCTIONAL FILIPINOS IN THEIR HOME COUNTRY. If DNA were the only basis then can Jason VOORHEES explain why people like the late Lydia De Vega, Lea Salonga-Chien, or just ANY SUCCESSFUL FILIPINO ABROAD succeeded? It's gotta do with the SYSTEMS. Jason VOORHEES is silent right now -- as silent as the Jason Voorhees of the horror films. But who knows when Jason VOORHEES will rampage again. It's because they don't wait for Halloween (it's NOVEMBER NOW) -- they simply rampage whenever they feel like it. Jason VOORHEES might even insist that either people listen to his ideals OR HE WILL HACK THEM WITH HIS MACHETE. Not a very good argument if that were real! Jason VOORHEES can hack people with a machete. However, Jason VOORHEES can't hide the fact that the Marcos Empire wasn't a real parliamentary!  

Hopefully, Jason VOORHEES (and possibly Benign0) will read this!