Fifty million voters will troop the polls this year, with about thirty five million belonging to the 18-35 age group. These group of Filipinos are very knowledgeable of what is happening in their spheres of interests. They are enlightened. Technology has allowed this to happen. What would modernize our democracy is not the laws that our stupid lawmakers make in the halls of Congress (In a normal situation, this should be the case. Laws are supposed to be instruments of change, not instruments of legal oppression by the elite), but the knowledge that technologies present to people.
Fact is, thanks to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, technologies have brought us tightly closer and freer still than before. This is the third phase of world-wide enlightenment, when knowledge has now become widespread and being used to improve lives and change futures.
Literally, what the Ancients describe back then, as all human knowledge the size of our thumb, we have discovered that, indeed, all knowledge acquired during one's life time is literally, the size of one's thumb. Hence, the possibility of creating a totally democratic society exist and is not as costly as what we previously think it is.
The power to change things definitely lie in every Citizen. A fully Enlightened Citizen is the equivalent of a battalion of soldiers. The Establishment is being challenged almost every single day. The end of the Establishment is near. The Light is slowly escaping its prison of darkness.
The Neo Citizen has his duty---to spread the Light of Enlightenment and mobilise other citizens to action. Change is inevitable. The good life is at hand. All the Citizen needs is to eradicate the vestiges of the Old Order and allow the birthing of the New One. There is no stopping this.
The Neo Citizen therefore, must step up his struggle so that Open Societies will bloom like Lotuses throughout the human landscape.
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Thursday, March 10, 2011
I wanna be a billionaire and how to become one, really.
Senior editor for the Forbes magazine Liza Kroll said that a billionaire has luck, determination, and a "little extra"--that of being offbeat. Offbeat, for Kroll simply means, being creative. So, there are just three things a person needs to succeed--luck, determination and creativity.
Tell that to Carlos Slim Helu, the Mexican telecoms giant who still dominates the world's billionaires with his 76 billion. Or to Microsoft chief Bill Gates, who still surpasses Steve Jobs in the billionaire's department with his 56 billion. I always think that hardware is more dominant than software. Warren Buffett follows next with his 50 billion.
Forbes expects hot money to flow to Asia, what with the Middle East in turmoil and Europe and the United States still struggling financially. Asian economies like China and Hongkong are reaping the rewards. And if we are creative enough, the Philippines stands to gain not just a fraction but a huge windfall from this. However, this early and despite President Aquino's visit, Japan sees the Philippines as the most unlikely place to dump their investments.
We can create our own multi-billion dollar man if our billionaires turn themselves into thought leaders outside our country. Our multi-billion peso men like Manny Pangilinan and Manny Villar have potentials of becoming our foremost thought leaders, since they have become successful through sheer luck, determination and creativity.
Our billionaires should think of expanding outward. Globalization has its negatives and positives. For weak nations, globalization is negative. For strong and stronger ones, globalization tends to be extremely positive.
The beauty of capitalism is that it allows the weak to dominate the strong through focused determination.
Capitalist doctrine dictates that to reap more rewards, one must conquer more markets to dump your goods. Lesser markets mean lesser profits. Lesser profits mean lesser means to produce. More markets mean huge profits and huge profits mean more means to produce.
For now, those who become billionaires are either providers of hardware or infrastructure and those who fund these builders of infrastructures.
There will come a time when all these will stop, and the trend will likely go the way of the content or software providers. You can't have hardware without content.
Creative people will find ways on how to provide both, eventually.
Tell that to Carlos Slim Helu, the Mexican telecoms giant who still dominates the world's billionaires with his 76 billion. Or to Microsoft chief Bill Gates, who still surpasses Steve Jobs in the billionaire's department with his 56 billion. I always think that hardware is more dominant than software. Warren Buffett follows next with his 50 billion.
Forbes expects hot money to flow to Asia, what with the Middle East in turmoil and Europe and the United States still struggling financially. Asian economies like China and Hongkong are reaping the rewards. And if we are creative enough, the Philippines stands to gain not just a fraction but a huge windfall from this. However, this early and despite President Aquino's visit, Japan sees the Philippines as the most unlikely place to dump their investments.
We can create our own multi-billion dollar man if our billionaires turn themselves into thought leaders outside our country. Our multi-billion peso men like Manny Pangilinan and Manny Villar have potentials of becoming our foremost thought leaders, since they have become successful through sheer luck, determination and creativity.
Our billionaires should think of expanding outward. Globalization has its negatives and positives. For weak nations, globalization is negative. For strong and stronger ones, globalization tends to be extremely positive.
The beauty of capitalism is that it allows the weak to dominate the strong through focused determination.
Capitalist doctrine dictates that to reap more rewards, one must conquer more markets to dump your goods. Lesser markets mean lesser profits. Lesser profits mean lesser means to produce. More markets mean huge profits and huge profits mean more means to produce.
For now, those who become billionaires are either providers of hardware or infrastructure and those who fund these builders of infrastructures.
There will come a time when all these will stop, and the trend will likely go the way of the content or software providers. You can't have hardware without content.
Creative people will find ways on how to provide both, eventually.
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