{"id":1514,"date":"2018-05-12T08:12:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T00:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2018-05-12T08:12:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T00:12:22","slug":"south-east-asian-babel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/?p=1514","title":{"rendered":"South East Asian Babel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philippines is the prime example of a modern day Babel.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\" [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Pieter_Brueghel_de_Jonge_-_De_bouw_van_de_toren_van_Babel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" alt=\"Pieter Brueghel de Jonge - De bouw van de toren van Babel\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f0\/Pieter_Brueghel_de_Jonge_-_De_bouw_van_de_toren_van_Babel.jpg\/512px-Pieter_Brueghel_de_Jonge_-_De_bouw_van_de_toren_van_Babel.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Calls for unity is a running and expensive gag. Political opinions are like assholes, 99.99% of the people have one; most of them different in varying degrees; and each group hell bent in believing that they are in the right. The best we can aspire for is a ruling majority as even consensus is too far fetched of a goal.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake that I love my country. Its people, not as much. But the weird part is that we make good citizens but only if it is in a foreign land. I am still puzzled if it means those who have the qualities of being a good citizen tend to migrate out of frustration, or if the endemic political system in the country is really an engulfing viral machine immune to vaccinations. Maybe it is both?<\/p>\n<p>Patriotic but tribalistic; the combination is a bitter sweet pill to swallow. It is like mixing oil and water which is possible with the right emulsifier. If only we can agree on what that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippines is the prime example of a modern day Babel. Calls for unity is a running and expensive gag. Political opinions are like assholes, 99.99% of the people have one; most of them different in varying degrees; and each group hell bent in believing that they are in the right. The best we can aspire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[59,62,92],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garbage","tag-garbage","tag-general-politics","tag-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}