Hello! Welcome to a new segment of my blog called the Thoughtful Week. In my effort to stay consistent in writing and in expressing myself (as part of my ongoing self-therapy in getting over my perfectionism and people-pleasing), these blog entries will be a collection of snippets of thoughts that I had during that week, with either zero to minimal explanation. Basically, these were ideas that were too short to develop into an essay or too long to post in Mastodon. Here's this week's entry:
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On watching Devil May Cry Netflix
Where does the in-between seek refuge to find security and peace? Those were persecuted and abused in their homeland when they were also hunted and killed in the corner they're backed into? Where can the in-between go?
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On Adolescence Netflix
Masculinity is so fragile that it needs war (violence) to regulate and validate itself that in peaceful times, it turns its destructive energy to the society at large, with small acts of aggression as a short release, hoping that it will culminate into a larger destructive force, cycling through wars and murder. Or was it just patriarchy?
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This "huwag na kayong bumalik sa Manila" meme from the bourgeois living in the metro every long weekend where the working class goes home to their provinces is getting lame already, aside from the fact that it was a tone-deaf one. It disregards the geographical aspect of poverty. The people from the provinces sacrificed living in peace and quiet to earn a living in the dystopian metro. If we wanted to, we wouldn't be here because our hometown is better than the hellscape of Metro Manila.
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K-pop artists are looking more and more like 2010s J-pop artists. I also didn't like how they keep on promoting male validation and approval for a woman's happiness. Kids are wanting more and more to be like their Kpop idols.
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On Supernatural (some episodes on season 6)
Masculinity, its fragility, and desires are the plot of this series. It's interesting to see how they are reflective of the plights of millennial men (even of older generations): how they don't ask for help and would just explode when filled to the brim, how they don't talk about their feelings, and probably the lack of soul even.
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Me hearing the sermon of a priest about the details of Jesus's persecution during the Roman times:
The GOAT of disinformation had been the Catholic Church since the dawn of monotheistic religion. They use it all: propaganda, information control, and the good old social and physical isolation of the thinkers.
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On Mental Health
Maybe the narrative we tell ourselves has something to do with the state of our mental health. Maybe it's important to note down our thoughts, look at it from a third perspective, and then revise the entire narrative itself.
Thoughtful Week 1
4/21/2025