Political blogging is for the political, not the hysterical

Caffeine Sparks wrote an interesting piece titled "Blogging at Pulitika" over at Filipinovoices. What she said can be summed up to one statement--every one has the right to express himself. If you're a rational animal and you know how to write, then, it's your right to populate the netsphere with your views.

True, everyone has the right to self-expression. It is an inherent right. However what this character who- just- wants- to-be- known- because- he's- jobless- right- now -and- does- not- have- anything- to- do- with- his-free-time is doing is plain and simple dramatics. He's just riding on the crest of the popularity of FilipinoVoices because simply, he represents the basest kind in the Filipino blogging community. A few reads his posts and to generate enough "hits" and "impressions" which he needs to justify his being part of the professional blogging community, he writes things against his fellow bloggers.

Poor fella (read FELL-a). He's probably soooo stressed and so pressured about where to get his next meal that he pours his frustrations over some silly and concocted matter and creates a moth hill out of nothing.

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

This is the last time I'll write about this psychotic thing raised by a frustrated and hungry blogger. Four points to ponder.

1. I don't agree with BeniGno on credentials. Yes, Caffeine Sparks, any one with a pen or a notebook or a personal computer has the right to write something about government or politics. Yet, credentials are important, especially for something very sensitive like political blogging. Why? Writing politics is all about the application of political theories and proper understanding of social dynamics. If you're a CPA, would you understand that? Yes, you may have theories about how things work; but if you don't have the proper academic training and you don't know how to look on things that matter, then, you're just there to muddle everything up and contribute towards misunderstanding rather than honest-to-goodness discussion. For example, you may examine the quantitative aspects of a political phenomena yet your observations would be deemed unimportant without a qualitative analysis. Understanding phenomena and applying theories to explain them are skills which not all people possess.

If you allow, say, an hysterical psychotic to write or comment about things which simply he does not even know or he profess to know, then, it's a disservice to everybody.

2. Political blogging is about politics, not hysterics. When you comment on something and you use coarse language, that's not political commenting. That's hysterics. When you just hijack the post and want every attention directed on your own site or post, that's plain and simple disrespect and merits the same kind of response from other people against you. As they say in some quarters, politics is for those who love analyzing things, not for those who love wearing other people's clothes.

3. Having the acuity in analysis takes years of practice. BeniGno may frown upon a bachelor's degree on History or a Masteral degree in Communication and his chuwawah may agree, but, this is simply a fact of life. If you're a computer programmer, would people believe you when you talk about things which you don't even have experience nor the intellectual stamina to begin with? BeniGno and his chuwariwah based in the States may holler and shout whatever and whenever they want against what I said now, but, that's the truth. A professor of political science or a professor of History with masters is more believable than, say a jobless CPA, right? I read Manolo Quezon simply because he's a student of History. I read Ellen Tordesillas because she's in the thick of things and she's always there in the field, writing stories that matter. I believe in what others write, like Ricky Carandang or Amado Doronilla of the Inquirer because Doronilla has a Master's degree in Political Science in the Australian National University (ANU).

I don't read people whose simple claim to fame is that they use coarse and vile street speak in their sites and those who want every attention by pretending to have a new concrete philosophical world construct when all they want to say is fuck the world and eat muck. Maybe, in their little and dark places where they reside, all they see are ghosts and make-believe fairies. It's simple really.

Those people who frown upon credentials can do whatever they want but they can't erase the undeniable fact that these people whom I stated here have more spunk and more knowledge than, say, a psychotic jobless fella or someone who thinks that his world is simply that of ours. It's simply not that simple really.

Lastly, let me expose what this hungry CPA wants to achieve---fame for himself and some money from Mrs. Arroyo to discredit those who just simply write the truth. Maybe he's hoping that Mrs. Arroyo provides a job for him (In Dubai, perhaps) and secures his threatened job in the states. That's a maybe which obviously, some psychotics out there would again misinterpret as categoricals.

Patricio Mangubat will continue his advocacy and will never be deterred by psychotics and pseudo-intellectuals. If you like what I am writing here, thanks. If you don't agree, debate me. If you don't want a debate, and you hate what I'm writing, then, you're free to go somewhere else. I am writing not for glory, nor for fame, nor for money, but for the heck of it. I love my country. I love my people. I started my struggle since my early years as a student leader in the University of the Philippines-Diliman. And though I'm at the twilight of my third decade, I am not about to give this up. No.

Patricio Mangubat will just stop writing about the truth as soon as a New Society through a New Philippine Revolution happens. And this, my friends, will happen very soon.

4. Unqualified people always rant the most against other more experienced and more qualified people. Because they know deep within themselves that they lack the necessary skills and experience unlike other people. When you accuse somebody of a crime, you are as guilty as the one you're accusing. As they say in Tagalog, " ang nasalang ang damdamin, karaniwang ang nasalang ay ang tunay na saloobin". There must be truth behind this. Those who really pollute the netsphere with their sloppy and psychotic writing could very well continue what they're doing for as long as they don't use other people to gain hits.

Enuf said. ONward with the struggle!

Bloggers Unite! You only have your chains to unshackle!

Calling all those Filipinos who blog.

We are faced with a threat more vicious and more deadly than those we ever faced before.

Having been hit so many times, the State is now undertaking a campaign that would paralyze this new found freedom of ours.

Like what China did to its blogging and online community, the State is thinking of shutting down the entire online community and make us toe the Palace line.

A report says that Malacanang is pissed with the Truths we have been writing against this dispensation and has ordered the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) and the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) to debilitate our Internet access.

With a pending authoritarian measure right before the laps of Mrs. Arroyo, propagators of this evil regime are propounding the inclusion of blogging as another media which they want to conquer and kill.

Let us not allow these evil men to triumph.

Let us make our voices heard.

We call upon all bloggers to unite and rally behind the Cause of Freedom. Let us organize ourselves now and destroy these people before they use their iron fisted hands to strangle us to our online deaths!

Sabbatical Leave from FilipinoVoices

Starting today, I resolved to put a decisive end to the pseudo-intellectualism being propounded upon by this man, Benigno. I read his recent entry over at FilipinoVoices and it's sheer kagaguhan. Illogical. Nonsensical. A product of a confused brain. Unhistorical. No basis in philosophy. Juvenile allulations.

I'll not put up with it anymore.

Hence, I will momentarily take a leave of absence in FilipinoVoices. Why, you may ask?

First, if I continue to be a part of FilipinoVoices, it's like I'm lending credence to his hyper inflated and nonsensical rhetorics. Like what Atty. Trixie Angeles said, if you put up with it, you're a part of this shit.

I'm full of these wild, crazy and totally juvenile self-advertisements and philological inventions coached in so-called "intellectual" discourses. Benigno is just using the site to promote his crazy ideas to the detriment of the entire FilipinoVoices collective. He's polluting the entire blogosphere with his egotistical conservatism. There's nothing new with what he's saying and the reason why people comment about what he's saying is simple really---its totally ridiculous really and the issue sooo simple that its unimaginable for an adult man not to comprehend what's soo obvious. I want to answer him but it would take a loong entry to write that,and since you realize that you need to explain certain things that you presume Benigno already know since its all too elementary and too highschoolish, you feel that it's useless talking to a man who invented his own world out of philological trash thrown by previous thinkers.

Honestly, a part of me wants to devote some time deconstructing all of these Benigno-isms but if I do just that, I'll just be feeding his ego and probably be an unwitting endorser of his fallacies. That's a tip for Mlq3--huwag mo nang patulan ang sarado nang isipan ng isang walang muwang. If you do, you'll be worse than him.

Like before, I will devote my time here at New Philippine Revolution and will again write insightful articles to expose the weaknesses and strengths of this regime and possibly contribute towards its eventual downfall.