Philippines just got even more dumber.
From 86 points just three years ago…
Now went down to measly 81 points.
Just a point above the line of stupidity and intellectual dullness.
This only happens in a kleptocratic state. The sociopolitical climate of the Philippines is one of feudalism where the ruling classes always expect to gain tribute from the masses who must pay obeisance to them, like, as always in a feudal society like the Philippines, the lord of a manor who expect to get the harvest of his land from his peasants who must be grateful they were allowed cohabitation in his land in exchange for tilling the land for him and his family alone.
All the oligarchical political class of the Philippines have to do to maintain the status quo for themselves is to make the masses dull enough for them to be fooled and heavily taxed enough for them to prevent them from knowing the true face of the country.
And for them, it has paid good dividends.
. Girls and boys who are consistently underfed suffer from wasting and stunted growth. They lack the proper nutrients for their brains, bones and bodies to fully develop. Children born to hungry mothers may have smaller brains. The long-term permanent implications, potentially lower IQs, poorer performance in school, and poor physical health.
The central question of IQ-crime studies is whether individuals with less intelligence, on average, commit more crime than those with more intelligence. That is, are IQ and crime negatively correlated? The best answer, drawn from previous research, is a qualified "yes." Delinquents and criminals average IQ scores 8 to 10 points lower than noncriminals, which is about one-half a standard deviation. IQ and criminal behavior are negatively correlated at about r = -.20 (Hirschi and Hindelang; Wilson and Herrnstein).
In the Philippines, education was for-profit, it was never intended for the intellectual advancement of the Filipino anyway. Textbook publishers for public schools rake in billions of pesos in just recycling the same old crumpled, easy-to-ruin, out-of-date textbooks. Teachers underpaid, pupils seriously lacking the drive to learn due to malnutrition and hunger. Colleges claim “quality education” producing “world-class graduates” who, when faced with overseas employment, don’t even qualify as professionals in other countries unless having to redo the education in those countries all over again, all the while constantly charging exorbitant tuition and miscellaneous fees going to naught to justify everything they claim.
It didn’t help that the de facto ruling Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines has always said that any form of intellectual discourse is taboo, for it meant rebelling against the Church, against God, against what God ordained in this world. The private schools that they manage are just mere fronts, for aside secular courses that require professional acumen, clerical matters demanded clerical obedience and intellectual indifference for the sake of clerical objective. Engaging in intellectual discourse, or the quest for scientific and logical knowledge, would invite castigation, or perhaps excommunication, from the country’s de facto ruling bishops.
If one from another country would ask why Filipinos in general have no concept of nationalism, intellectual discourse, active political participation, and finally the drive for national betterment, here is the answer. The people simply are uninterested for those matters, other than self gratification and sadism and masochism for each other, only about the self and not of the collective.
Philippines’ neighbors, as well as other members of the international community, rightly stand ready to humiliate it for its constant and chronic inability to impress the world with anything of note and its poor showing and reputation around the world. Its very existence is the biggest anti-intellectual movement in history.
Philippines has gone down the drain, and it is willing to go further and currently does that.
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