Luis V. Teodoro

Former Dean, UP CMC. Columnist, Business World. Author, The Undiscovered Country; The 6th Estate and Other Discoveries; In Medias Res; Divided by Two; etc,

[Luis V. Teodoro @luisteodoro]

@talk2GLOBE How do I add accounts to Globe One?

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@pinoymediactr @altermidya Thanks. BTW, as of 2020 I am no longer AlterMidya Chair

[Luis V. Teodoro @luisteodoro]

Independence Day, 2022: Rizal, Del Pilar, Lopez Jaena and company through their writings fought for the independence of mind that’s needed to achieve Philippine Independence

[Luis V. Teodoro @luisteodoro]

The Catholic churches are crammed to the rafters every Sunday with many of the same worshippers who lie, steal, cheat and murder from Monday to Saturday. These weekday atheists and many others ignored the Church plea for them to make a moral choice last May 9.

[Luis V. Teodoro @luisteodoro]

School shootings are an epidemic in the US not only because there are 120 guns per 100 US people. It is also because the movies, TV programs, music and other products of the US culture industry idealize violence and guns as the answer to every problem whether real or imagined.

[Luis V. Teodoro @luisteodoro]

Rizal said that there are no tyrants where there are no slaves. The worst form of slavery is not of the body but of the mind—and of that these isles of forgetfulness have plenty, hence the reality and constant threat of tyranny.

[Luis V. Teodoro @luisteodoro]

“The evil that is in the world comes of ignorance...the most incorrigible vice of all is the ignorance that fancies it knows everything and claims for itself the right to kill.”—Nobel Prize Laureate Albert Camus.

[Luis V. Teodoro @luisteodoro]

We should be asking what is profoundly wrong with a culture in which far too many people are willing to do anything, even the most evil deeds, for money, in total disregard of both truth and the country’s future. Poverty and need alone cannot account for it.

[Luis V. Teodoro @luisteodoro]

Every election in this country of lost hopes demonstrates that the masses who decide who is elected are not only disinformed and corrupt; they don’t have a sense of community either. Hence it is every one for himself; the country can go to hell for all they care.

[Luis V. Teodoro @luisteodoro]

@ederic Please extend my commiseration to your wife and the rest of your brother in law’s family.

[Luis V. Teodoro @luisteodoro]

“Resilience “ is just another name for excusing the rank incompetence and sheer mindlessness of the monsters a benighted electorate elect every three years. Every regime has relied on it to stay in power. Everyone with any brains, specially the media, must stop celebrating it.

[Maria Ressa @mariaressa]

Good morning from Manila! "Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think." Hannah Arendt

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Congratulations to the new Marshall McLuhan Fellow, @IanEsguerra ! So well-deserved. And congratulations to all finalists, @lianbuan @mikenavallo @raffytima @chiarazambrano and @Camille diola! This was a great group; everyone deserving

[Luis V. Teodoro @luisteodoro]

@MaeDianeAzores It also takes billions in campaign funds to be considered by the COMELEC a “credible” rather than a nuisance candidate.

[Luis V. Teodoro @luisteodoro]

@societyofhonor That the Philippines is a democracy is one of those rumors spread by those who don’t know what democracy is.

[Luis V. Teodoro @luisteodoro]

The real oligarchs — the few in power — are the beneficiaries of what is happening, which is a reprise of the martial law period when Ferdinand Marcos had total control of government.

[Luis V. Teodoro @luisteodoro]

Mr. Duterte himself bragged that the shutdown of ABS-CBN was his doing, which means that the House Franchises Committee did what he wants. The same committee also ignored 75 percent of the people’s favoring the renewal of the network’s franchise.

[Luis V. Teodoro @luisteodoro]

Rather than demolishing the oligarchy, the shutdown of ABS-CBN is an assault on the Republic, whose fundamentals are the independence of the executive , legislative and judicial branches and representative gov’t’s heeding the people’s sentiments

[Luis V. Teodoro @luisteodoro]

@talk2GLOBE I have a pending WIFI subscription with you. Your crew came last week to install it but did not have the needed permits. When will my WiFi connection be installed? My order ref. no. Is GLO-1048084.

[Luis V. Teodoro @luisteodoro]

What’s with Globe? I subscribed to one of their WiFi plans. Their installers came but had no permit from the barangay and from Sta. Lucia Realty. Then they tell me I have to get the permits! They send me numbers to call or text, but no one answers!