"... an overdose of political bias can be fatal to readership and profitability of a news organization." ~Antonio P. Contreras, December 18, 2016
"EDSA was not a revolution. It was a military coup supported by the people but hijacked by the elites." ~Antonio P. Contreras, 17 September 2017
"Equally compelling, ... is the risk of planting so much anger in the minds of the young, and in exposing them to a one-dimensional representation of a complex period in history, more so if that is one that is more popular among those who are tasked to educate them." ~Antonio P. Contreras, 27 November 2016
"Heroes are not in tombs and monuments. They are found in the hearts of people." ~Antonio P. Contreras
"... how to make sense of the President without losing your head." ~Antonio P. Contreras, December 8, 2016 (Political semantics and semiotics)
"Politicizing the young is an important ingredient for revolution and resistance. ...I do not want to under-estimate the power of this generation of the youth, by looking back at how many in my own generations have abandoned their transient activism, which was fashionable when they were still students,...." ~Antonio P. Contreras, (I WILL KEEP ON BEING THE INCONVENIENT SIDE OF THIS STORY) November 27, 2016
"Sometimes in the midst of stress you get to discover that a loss can be a win and an end could be a new beginning. " ~Antonio P. Contreras, April 18, 2017
"The best way to teach history is to teach its methodology and then allow students to raise their own questions and form their own conclusions and interpretations after being exposed to all narratives about the personality, period or event. The role of the teacher is as a guide and enabler, and not a proselytizer. A teacher can state his or her position but only as a particular interpretation and should in no way be construed as the only interpretation." ~Antonio P. Contreras (2016)
"The power of nature could cast a spell even if it could also bring death and destruction." ~Antonio P. Contreras
"To claim that the misadministration of the vaccine was an outcome of bad science is utterly ridiculous. It was not the scientific community that made the decision to make shortcuts and fast-track the vaccination program. The decision was made by bureaucrats who ignored science, and instead gave more credence to political considerations. It was also pushed by pharmaceutical capitalists who gave more importance to profit. If there are scientists who were involved, these were people who compromised their scientific training." ~Antonio P. Contreras
Food for Thought:
"... we (also) have to temper a bit our sense of entitlement that we who are learned in law, IR and politics always know best, based on our understanding of theories and concepts we learn in school and teach to our students. If we keep on doing so we end up arrogantly dismissive of the ordinary and everyday sense of reason, worse we label these as stupidity. This is where we end up being dismissed by those who we want to transform and influence. You make them understand by getting into their patterns of thinking. Sometimes gems of political understanding could be found from the organic and raw knowledge of the ordinary citizen." ~Antonio P. Contreras, (FB, October 2016)
"You focus your condemnation of us on the basis of a single issue -- the war and drugs. How can you be so fixated that you forget to look at the totality of our democracy." ~Prof Antonio P Contreras on International Media re: DeLima's arrest on a drug -related charge, February 24, 2017
"You went to the Court for relief. And it gave you a ruling based on law. But justice is rendered by any court not on the basis of politics but on the basis of law." ~Antonio P. Contreras, Philippine Political Scientist, 14 November 2016
VERSE ASIDE
"The coldness of beer.
The rising super moon at a distance.
Asserting its beauty over clouds.
Winds that send waves crashing.
The challenges of life before a sip of pleasure.
Even as my loved ones are away and I am all alone."
~Antonio P. Contreras, FB, 15 November 2016
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