Philippines' Autistic Top 5 - Updated

Define "autistic."

(Note that this post was inspired by a tweet made by Journalist Raissa Writer when she described the AntiRHBill rally headed by the Catholic Church)

@raissawriter In an apparent taunt directed at PNoy, Archbishop said Church is "not autistic"



M Scott Peck in his book People of the Lie define autism as:

"The utter failure to submit oneself to reality."

"The word comes from the Greek root `auto,' meaning "self." The person who is autistic is oblivious to certain essential dimensions of reality. Such people literally live "in a world of their own" in which the self (or the identity of the self) reigns supreme."
(p.162)

I am unsure how the Church defines "autistic" in reference to whoever it is referencing to.

But the term "autistic" as used in this post is NOT medical autism but spiritual and emotional autism that makes one unable to surrender one's self to reality and so restricts one's self to his/her/its own view of the world in order to pursue its selfish agenda.

So far, the following are the top 5 "autistic" people, individuals, life forms in the country. There are more autistics out there, but this list includes those whose autism exerts the most influence in everyone's minds and hearts.

Be aware or be square.




1 The Catholic Church

The Catholic Church wants to insert themselves in any issue that would give them mileage - politically, emotionally, `spiritually,' religiously, educationally and media-wise.

Why?

That would buy them face-time on TV, radio, the net and news print. Exposure is important. It reminds everyone they still exist, that their opinions still matter, that whatever they say still holds sway among their flock of sheep, that they could say the blackpen is blue and people would still believe it as true, that they could still influence thought and action, that their business is still running, that consumers are still buying their shit/want their shit/crave to be blessed by their shit.

(NOTE: To be fair, one of the benefits of belonging in a church is the sense of community it provides its members. But to be truthful, the sense of community can exist with or without the church's machinations. But it is the church which can't survive without a community to back it up - imagine that! & imagine this too: the church knows that as true and is afraid you'll know it too.)

Thus their insistence, their energy, their efforts, their voices, their strength poured out in building / re-building / promoting every tenet their self-important mindset could conjure - sans the truth/common sense/reality and force majeure.

Who else had the gall to declare that

`Hey, limbo doesnt really exist yall, we were just guessing that it did for 2 millenia. So now we think it doesnt so all those unbaptized dead babies we said will go to hell -- we were all just kidding. I mean, somebody's got to think up of something. It's difficult coming up with new material all the time, duh.'



You know all those Coke `Happiness', Jollibee commercials etc. advertising agencies punch out every few months or so? It has to be different each time because people need to be reminded to buy Coke and eat Jollibee right? & in a not-boring way. That's what the church does with these "new" tenets.

They have to make up something new to keep themselves visible in the public mind. There was the longer rosary beads, the dissolution of limbo and now -- guess what the new buzz word is?

RH Bill.

They're not changing any tenet here, just highlighting/promoting and tooting their own horn again.


And sans the fact that Pinoys love to have sex but some dislike having to actually take care of babies (as shown by the 'Pamparegla' paraphernalia outside Quiapo church); that sex is natural (it's what got us here in the first place) -- the church and all its pseudo-eunuchs insist they know how you should make families and that you should make babies.

That would give people reason to talk about them, hate them, notice them, believe them, root for them or not - the important thing is that you noticed they're still there. They're still relevant enough to be liked/disliked/thumbs up-ed or thumbs-down-ed.


And their autistic because they can only see their relevance, their need to be relevant and that you should think the same way they do minus what you really think or feel about what they want you to think and feel.

Their relevance only exists in their heads and has nothing to do with reality.





2 PNoyNoy



How is PNoyNoy autistic?

We could only note the blatant ones readily available in media, and these are the following:

Smiling while inspecting the site of a tragic hostage-taking and talking to media about the hostage-taking.






Allegedly not answering the phone when being called by a foreign official in the midst of a national and foreign emergency.


Blaming PGMA for everything wrong in this country.




Blaming Noli de Castro during an anniversary media party.




Inability to admit or accept blame.


Using the stage as a medium to air his personal grievances and preferences (so 15th century colonial catholic church much).





If you cannot see these as PNoy's failure to submit himself to reality, you're probably autistic yourself (yes, name-calling is easy and it works).



3 Star Cinema movies

We will restrict these to the most recent movies released last year and early this year.



This movie says, as according to Jessica Zafra:

The Sexy Mistress has lived in New York, ergo she is “liberated”, which in the Philippines is a synonym for “promiscuous”.

The Beautiful Wife is a good girl, hence she does not wear mascara and she has long, straight black hair that she wears in a ponytail.

They should engage in public bitch fights in which handbags become metaphors for the man they are fighting over.

The cheating husband endures excruciating physical torment as a substitute for castration.

The mistress goes back to New York, where all the bad girls are supposed to go, which makes you wonder who won exactly.

The reality of the actual dynamics between wives and mistresses is not shown in this movie, not even an iota of it. Sure, movies are supposed to entertain but should also be logical. Life doesnt make sense but movies actually should.





Does this need any explanation?

Could you suspend your imagination for 90 minutes or so enough to believe that Piolo P could fall for Angelica P?

To be fair, Piolo and Angelica - they're both very pretty.

They're both very sexy.

But Angelica has more balls to do comedy and make fun of herself compared to Papa P.

I dont need to say more.




This movie hails autism and advocates the fact that the lives of peripheral characters do not matter unless they serve the purpose of the 2 major stars' characters.

The reality is, no one in their healthy minds would want to serve as a prop for other people's agenda. But this movie says they can and it also proves that it is romantic and fun to do so.





4 All those Shampoo Commercials

Most Philippine shampoo commercials assume that

only females wash their hair,



all Filipino women have straight, long hair (or at least they should - to better increase the sale of shampoos),




long straight hair trumps talent,



Philippine hair has a mind of its own,

beautiful hair = kiss/sex/love/self-esteem.




5 Willie Revillame

Willie Revillame believes his own delusion, greatness

and any proof to the contrary are merely provided by those who envy his blessed financial etc. state.

Check out these posts on Willie Revillame.




But this list is not comprehensive. Psychological, spiritual, emotional autism is rampant everywhere. Have you checked your own view of reality?