My travels to places where there are no paths to follow.
How to detect fake news?
I think the brouhaha about “detecting fake news” (and the underlying notion of “fake news” itself) is utterly wrong because it teaches people to think in simplistic boxes, in almost black-and-white terms.
Hey people, I’ve got news for you (and it isn’t fake): Continue reading “How to detect fake news?”
To preempt complaints about the title (with shouts of “Boo! False advertising!”), I should probably include an alternate title or subtitle this early: An Allegory for Historical Materialism and Modern Political Economy. Or maybe this: Science Fiction: Utopian and Scientific.
But let me get straight to the point and answer my own question: What are the six stages in a product’s life? I can think of six. There may be more if you add regional variations, or less if you see enough commonalities. But I’ll stick with six:
In the Philippine political scene in recent decades, dilawan (literally, “yellow-colored”) has come to refer to a certain set of populist slogans, symbols, and simplified notions that first alluded to certain prominent leaders and events of the anti-Marcos struggle in the 1978-1986 period until the EDSA People’s Power revolt.
(This is not to be confused with the earlier and pejorative dilawan or yellow labor groups in the trade union movement, which were generally seen as anti-worker and pro-management.)
The political dilawans have evolved greatly since then, but the constant reference to the Aquino family (Ninoy, Cory, and increasingly, their children) and their near-mythical role in the final years of the anti-Marcos struggle remain—especially Ninoy’s martyrdom and Cory’s crusade before, during, and after her 1986-1992 presidency. Continue reading “Three Dilawan generations”