I'll buy this...

Why I like this article? ( Philippines has World Heaviest Load ) It strike to the very center of Filipino’s buying attitude and the influenced of mass media. We tend to be easily deceived on what we saw and hear. What’s the latest gadget in the market? Do we need it? Yeahh of course. Of the many features and function the latest Cellphone we own can we utilize most of it? Yeahh… “I can take pictures and download and share it to my friends…” woowwww how useful, I’m not totally guilty.

No need for more rhetoric’s. The articles is written by Willy E. Arcilla. Though convergence of people from Ad industry - people responsible for creating temptation on buying something, it run’s into ad spending habit of our local manufacturing industry. On how to effectively deliver their message and product to the consumer without cluttering the media outlets and outdoor billboards and best of all to have the moral and social responsibility in nation building.

But, isn’t very contrasting? The idea of this Ad Agency is to entice people to buy, buy, buy and buy? And that’s what the manufacturing sector wants. Buy, buy, buy and buy more.

Here's the excerpt...

THE ad congress’ keynote speaker, John Gokongwei, once quipped in a separate occasion, “We are a nation that produces nothing and consumes everything.” If China is known as the “superfactory of the world,” the Philippines must be the “supermarket of the world,” where Filipinos buy virtually everything -- an unsustainable economic development model, and simply unwise.

Filipinos need to spend less and save more, to be more of producers and not just consumers. Unbridled ad spending may also contribute to the country’s worsening culture of materialism, which without proper guidance, can lead to an erosion in morality manifested in envy and covetousness, as shown in dishonesty in school tests and even TV game shows, in national elections and tax declarations. In the extreme, it can also lead to criminality and violence, and even in the rampant graft and corruption of civil servants who aspire for but cannot afford the tempting luxuries from the relentless indoctrination of glamorous ads that goad them to “live up with the Joneses” on their shoestring wages.

The illegals. Whoaredey...?

I don’t know what kind of people are these… trying to make money out of other people suffering. I keep on asking how useful our Philippine National Police on handling these high profile illegal activities. Is our institution who’s function is to protect its citizen being useful defending the common people specially those who advocate for peace and fair justice against those who manipulate our laws for their own economic advancement.

In Palawan, there are only few people who are in the forefront of advocating the interest of the common people against greedy well connected groups or individual. We’ve seen and witness the brutal conclusion of one of the few respected journalist in Palawan. Dong Batul. With all the warnings and death threat he has been through it didn’t stop him of pulling out the truth out of the systematic political maneuvering he is against to.

As I run through the April 9, 2008 issue of www.inquirer.net regarding another respected journalist in Palawan receiving death threat, I couldn’t imagine why they are doing this, who are the people behind this dealings and who are they beholden to.

If it is work related, would they be happy and contended if Mr. Anda stop what he is doing? Reading the materials posted on palawanreport.com, are we going to act stupid on who’s behind all of these. Yeah…. Because our law says… blah, blah…. isn’t the same law these people are using to hide their wrongdoing? Or it is because the authorities who are responsible protecting us are just doing what they can and not what more they can to unearth the individuals behind this? Maybe they have limited resources and the information GIVEN to them is not enough. Yeah. Or maybe this is the product of our authorities inability to uncover the mastermind behind the various illegal act previously committed. Is this the reason why this situation just keep on happening in our province?

Are we not learning from experience or have the basic common sense that these individuals would do their act that is not obvious and beyond the eyes of our authorities to see and comprehend? That they are doing the extra-ordinary things to hide their wickedness. These people would also strategize on how to deplete the accusation against them and sometimes create a scenario to confuse the investigator and the public. Worst is if the core of their investigation is rooted on the hand of the few questionable and unreliable witnesses. Are you just have to wait who comes first? We’re are you going, North or South?

There are still a handful of people who are capable of doing what is right. A few willing to risk and give whatever goodness they still have against those who’s primary concern is to advance their personal interest whatever the consequences is. Isn’t what we call greediness?