Yes, this is another rant. And yes, it's getting tiring.
To be honest, my country, the Philippines, is really lagging with the rest of the world. Sure, we get privileges here that a majority of nations in Africa does not possess. Rants like these have been around for a decade. I think it begun when I started to read lazily written articles on a few books, which dated prior to the early 90's, the time when the economy here was shit after the end of Martial Law.
To keep my rant organized and not the eye-ripping type, I'm going to sum everything up as a list.
Technology. This problem is kinda not really severe as much as it sounds. The rig I built is comparable with other custom gaming PCs around the world, and I bought its parts locally. We have a decently good 32" LCD HDTV in the house. And maybe most other stuff built for the 21st century. But no, I'm no rich pimp around the block. I find good bargains and I take opportunities, which assisted in letting me fulfill my technological needs. However, if you take a stroll around here, and manage to enter an "Internet Cafe" chain (yes, Netopia, I'm talking to you), you'll discover that the 20-50 PCs lingering there are computers built during the digital Stone Age (2000-2003). You know, the 15-30GB Hard disks, 1.6Ghz Pentium 4's, and onboard graphics? Even those "gaming Internet cafes" promise nothing more than power equivalent to my 5-year old laptop, and the only difference is that they carry AGP graphics rather than onboard. Then they'd tell me, "These PCs are actually built for Internet purposes. We just placed games in there for business". But the Internet there is always shit, and I think my 3G portable internet goes faster than their "1337 awesome DSL". Newsflash suckers. DSL is relatively primitive technology developed from dial-up. Phone lines are dumb and retarded. Next time, please make actually functioning PCs and Internet connections that actually downloads 3MB in one click, not that pause, refresh, redownload setup.
To sum up how technology lags here, there's plenty of powerful and updated stuff on the market, however people don't know what they are and where to find them. I'd let them choose from a Radeon 9600 and a HD4870 and 86% of them chose the 9600 just because the name numbers are bigger than the 4870. But if they actually open up the specs and read, they'd easily change their mind (assuming they know what they are reading and not just looking at photoshopped game screenshots).
Literacy. This is one of the worst. The Philippines prides itself from being one of the best English-literate people in Asia. Guess what, China actually overtaken us. I remember Chinese guys over at Second Life who needs Google to translate my words for them, but hell, times are changing. Now I'm stuck with retarded pinoys who have to abbreviate almost everything they type. I type "lol" as a sign of laughter but they take it as a cuss and an insult. I'd educate them in English and they would answer "suht up stupid fuck bitch" for three times. I read other people's essays and writing and all I see is a block of meaningless text, whereas a 4 year old Singaporean can do way better. People spend 4-5 years at college studying with English as the medium, but five years after graduation they get rejected multiple times by employers, usually with a kick in the rear, because their English simply sucked. The Department of Education here is going nuts trying to make the nation literate in English, but sorry, they failed. My school implemented English as the medium of communication and instruction but that too has failed miserably. I'm giving those efforts two thumbs down, and a fart.
To sum this up: Your efforts to make properly implement English fails. I am so glad I learned the language on my own and not from useless textbooks, quizzes, and rules.
Morale. The Philippines also houses more emos than a quarter of China's population. Or maybe not because those statistics I gave is just a biased guess. I assume that 68% of these emos really do lead sad lives and the rest just followed a meme to fit in. And no, most of the "real" emos are not those you'd expect, those guys with eyeshadows? Black nails? Shitty "music"? No. They can be anyone, it could be your friend, your neighbor, the dork at school, your mother, or even worse, it could be you. I think you're gonna have to take a reality test.
As an addition to express how low Pinoy's morale is, my people rant how the government sucks ass trying to run the country, when they themselves [the people] are just sitting there, jacking off to the latest episode of Boys over flowers, eating a calorie-tank cheeseburger and wasting time at the mall. It's madness, I'd like to kick each one of these slackers into a bottomless well. And I'd like to kick them from behind while I'm at it.
Common sense. Now this is something really crucial, that if a nation and its people doesn't possess this particular trait, that nation might as well be bombed by a couple of nuclear warheads and asteroids. This is the root of the other three points I stated above.
The people here lacks basic common sense, the common sense a monkey possesses and utilizes, which makes it [monkey] run when a jaguar is chasing it down. But what about Pinoys? They get mugged and instead of handing it over and have a nice day, they resist, or pray the rosary and get killed shortly after. A Pinoy would choose a computer just because the casing looks good and not because of what's inside and how much it handles. A Pinoy would choose cheap, rotting meat instead of fresh ones just because, well, it's cheap and you get awesome stomach problems after eating. You see, this is the one main reason that makes me want to turn myself into a Swedish digital pirate, and drop bombs on the Philippines. And make an artificial earthquake on the Pacific that will accurately send a tsunami to that retarded country and erase it from the map for good.
If you're one of those one-minded patriots who thinks I'm some lowlife hater, think again, I hate for a reason, and my opinions are justified and true to some degree. This is my belief, and if you can't take a friend's advice on you because you are labeled as a "nerd" and you cut your wrists at home shortly after, I must say you are a very, very miserable child, your mind is ultimately fucked up and you have no reason to even live.
