It's a curious title. This post from my blog would be fed to Facebook via RSS. It would appear next to the gazillion other things in my network's news feed as some note posted by me. The interesting thing is how people would react to it.
People will not read this post because it's just some plain boring text note. To them, I might be some babbling non-sense posting one of those lists without much relevant content, a sore to the wonderful waterfall of information from Facebook. Most people are more attracted to visuals than text. People are more likely to click on some picture or video on the web than read some scholarly article or some opinion in the net. This has psychological basis, you see. One glance at a picture would send more information and excite more emotion in a viewer than some five paragraph essay like this.
People will read this post either because they are my friends, and I hope there are many of them, or because of the way I phrased my title. The title is quite intriguing. It excites the mind by stimulating it to ask why. Curiosity took the better part and you are now reading this article.
Think about it. Media is actually exploiting the power of psychology. Think more. Media is everywhere. That is why the average person of today is quite bombarded and saturated with information which most of the time is shrugged off by the consciousness. But all these information passes through our subconsciousness. Whether you like it or not, a passing glimpse may remain forever etched at some remote memory in your mind. The eyes are the windows of the soul. We might start wondering how much media has changed us internally. It has already been proven that media and information has radically shaped culture and society for the past decades.
It's time perhaps to educate people about media deconstruction. We must learn to break apart the different layers of message that media feeds us everyday. We can't be passive information consumers forever, we are far more intelligent. While media has been used to build society it has been responsible in the corruption of our Filipino values. In a world of globalization, we can't just take in everything the media feeds us. The more consciousness we put into receiving information, the more we get to be critical, the better we utilize information we receive. Empower yourself. Think.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
To Parents Who Make Us Human
I must admit I am writing this piece to meet a promise I gave to one Salesian who admitted he was reading my write-ups. Let's hide him in the name Fr. Ron Urbano, SDB. Thanks, padz!
They say behind every man's success is a woman but I say behind every person's success are a man and a woman. Fathers and mothers could not take less merit for the effort they have put forward in raising us their children. Admittedly, they have their own shortcomings but it is nothing compared to the dedication with which they combine instinct and freedom in securing their children's future.
We went to pay our last respects to a confrere's mother. The confrere shared how his parents move from house to house, building one after another, leaving the previous to a son and daughter who has just started a new family. Here is a wonderful example of how parents can waive their rights to bring more comfort to their children. To them, their own comfort is to find that all their children are comfortable.
I find it sad to hear that in Europe, couples are more keen on adopting a pet than raising children. Is civilization slowly losing its bearings? We are blessed that in the Philippines, the love for the family is very much felt and appreciated. Parents do anything to provide for their children.
I am quite blessed to have wonderful parents who saw me grow through the years. For this, I thank them.
Instinct or social programming? No, I call it the beauty of the human race to pass on to the next generation not only the biological inheritance as with animals but also the treasure of experience, wisdom, and love with which we propagate our kind. And this is done through our beloved parents who were also heirs of humanity.
They say behind every man's success is a woman but I say behind every person's success are a man and a woman. Fathers and mothers could not take less merit for the effort they have put forward in raising us their children. Admittedly, they have their own shortcomings but it is nothing compared to the dedication with which they combine instinct and freedom in securing their children's future.
We went to pay our last respects to a confrere's mother. The confrere shared how his parents move from house to house, building one after another, leaving the previous to a son and daughter who has just started a new family. Here is a wonderful example of how parents can waive their rights to bring more comfort to their children. To them, their own comfort is to find that all their children are comfortable.
I find it sad to hear that in Europe, couples are more keen on adopting a pet than raising children. Is civilization slowly losing its bearings? We are blessed that in the Philippines, the love for the family is very much felt and appreciated. Parents do anything to provide for their children.
I am quite blessed to have wonderful parents who saw me grow through the years. For this, I thank them.
Instinct or social programming? No, I call it the beauty of the human race to pass on to the next generation not only the biological inheritance as with animals but also the treasure of experience, wisdom, and love with which we propagate our kind. And this is done through our beloved parents who were also heirs of humanity.
Flexing those Muscles Again
I must confess, I have not used my techie muscles for a while. It seems I fell into a stagnant state of passivity and indifference as the information world around me evolved and developed. It is known among computer professionals that life must keep apace with the strides of information and technology. If you don't update, you'll get far behind, really really far behind.
A little surprise came my way that jump start my interest again in the field that has caught my passion. Such a surprise is too early to be revealed so I'm keeping close tabs on it. Yet it drove me to dive again into the pool of 1's and 0's and I found out I was born to swim in the sea of information. I was actually discovering ActionScript when I felt my adrenaline rise. I feel so geek.
I realize how much layered technology has become that to understand the whole system, you have to learn bits and pieces of everything. Your web is at the top of the food chain. It feeds on lower technologies and the layers go down until your teeth sink deep into the hard bones of electronics. Not many people realize it but it took years to prepare and hours to conceptualize the simplest of websites.
A little surprise came my way that jump start my interest again in the field that has caught my passion. Such a surprise is too early to be revealed so I'm keeping close tabs on it. Yet it drove me to dive again into the pool of 1's and 0's and I found out I was born to swim in the sea of information. I was actually discovering ActionScript when I felt my adrenaline rise. I feel so geek.
I realize how much layered technology has become that to understand the whole system, you have to learn bits and pieces of everything. Your web is at the top of the food chain. It feeds on lower technologies and the layers go down until your teeth sink deep into the hard bones of electronics. Not many people realize it but it took years to prepare and hours to conceptualize the simplest of websites.
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