{"id":1778,"date":"2019-09-15T18:55:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T10:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2019-09-22T19:01:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T11:01:46","slug":"intuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/15\/intuition\/","title":{"rendered":"Intuition ni Inay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Someone, obviously wearing their Filipino <em>nanays<\/em>&#8216; (mothers&#8217;) pride on their sleeves, posted this cute meme on Facebook: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>All mothers have intuition. Filipino mothers have radar.<\/p><cite>(Teecony.com online ad)<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I totally agree. This has a materialist basis, actually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First.<\/strong> Filipino mothers don&#8217;t just rely on their individual intuition, but on the collective intuition of their extended family and household, which they concentrate into a sharp and high-resolution image of their daily working environment. In military parlance, that is called situational awareness Level 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Second.<\/strong> Especially in the case of close-knit communities (as in lower-class, urban-poor, small-town, and rural-barrio communities, which comprise the majority in the Philippines), this individual or household-level intuitive faculty is further amplified because Filipino mothers tend to exchange notes across the <em>bakod<\/em> (fence) and across the <em>eskinita<\/em> (neighborhood alley), to their favorite <em>ka-chismisan<\/em> (neighborly chat mate). This has pros and cons, but the more socially conscious the mothers are, the more do the pros outweigh the cons. Situational awareness Level 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then <strong>third<\/strong>, there&#8217;s SA Level 3. The majority of Filipino mothers have not mastered it yet. But those who have are swelling in number. This has more to do with unfolding politics and ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short, beware of the Filipino mothers&#8217; radar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PS. Someone asked me, &#8220;I thought the &#8216;radar&#8217; thing was on Filipino wives?&#8221; No, that&#8217;s a different device, I told her. That&#8217;s not radar technology, but drone technology. Armed and ready, always on the prowl, and ready to release its deadly payload when triggered. #<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/junverzola\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Follow @junverzola<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I totally agree. This has a materialist basis, actually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,228,278],"tags":[386,245,385],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-humor-2","category-philosophy","tag-intuition","tag-mothers","tag-mugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}