Democrazy
Check out the Philippine entry, ‘Long live the fearless man’ by Aissa Penafiel and Migs Ocampo. I like their entry because it’s not a Rah-rah-democracy-is-great-Yippee! statement but a critical, questioning view which is truer to the spirit of democracy. It’s a bit ponderous, and it reminds me of a film I don’t like (The Pillow Book), but the video reflects the Filipinos’ more sophisticated, ambivalent attitude towards elections.
To vote for this entry, you have to keep clicking on the entries from the different countries until ‘Long live…’ appears, then click on the thumbs-up sign. There is no registration required. I asked the State Department rep how many times a viewer can vote. You can vote as many times as you like. How Pinoy.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
May 29th, 2009 at 00:08
am afraid the philippine entry won’t win; this, after all, isn’t an international beauty contest where year in and year out our delegate always gets the photogenic award. like, huh?
June 3rd, 2009 at 07:01
Filipinos’ cynicism about democracy does not equal sophistication, not when it is as knee-jerk and unthinking as the cock-eyed optimism shown by other people.
Besides, Filipinos have no reason to be cynical about democracy in the Philippines: it is working exactly as it ought to. Democracy does not necessarily ensure that people elect the most deserving leaders. It just ensures that people get the leaders they most deserve.