The document discusses several issues facing Filipino society including a lack of national purpose and common goals, deepening alienation of Filipinos, and the rise of individualism and consumerism over collective interests. It notes that these problems are typical in a colonial society undergoing rapid deterioration. Without a shared vision and with cultural influences promoting self-interest, society has fragmented into subgroups competing over private gains rather than working towards the common good. The document calls for embracing broader national goals to replace the limited mindset of a colonial people.

1. Charrie May Castro
Cedrick Abadines
Dylan Diaz
Andre Santos
ALIENATED FILIPINO

2. ALIENATED FILIPINO
●Ourmainproblemtodayisnationalsurvival.
●Thisistypicalofacolonialsocietyintheprocessofrapid
deterioration.
●Itliesinasocietywherepeopledonotfeelthattheyhavea
commongoal.

3. CONSUMER SOCIETY
• The direct result of an individualistic philosophy which
seeks not the common good but only individual
advancement even at the expense of one’s fellowmen.
• This condition has been abetted by the cultural influences
and the agencies that work towards our miseducation.
• There is no denying the fact that this mood is prevalent in
those societies which put a premium on self-indulgent
leisure and material advancement.

4. ALIENATION OF THE FILIPINO
• Our lack of a common central purpose, the
absence of real national goals, our addiction to
habits of dependence have resulted in the
deepening alienation of the Filipino.
• The more crimes are committed, the more the
non-criminal population retreats into strictly
individualistic means of protecting themselves and
their families.
• The sanctions that society normally imposes in its
member no longer exist.

5. REBELLION OF THE YOUNG
• TheTVshows,themovies,andmostpopularmusicabetanti-
socialandescapisttendenciesintheyoung.
• Theylosethemselvesinapursuitofself-indulgenceinways
copiedfromaculturetheyregardassuperiorandadvanced.
• Thisapingofwhatis“mod”intheUnitedStatesisthekeytothe
correlationbetweenlonghairanddrugs
• Thesolutiontothisphenomenonliesinsocialcompulsion.

6. EMERGENCE OF SUB-GROUPS
• Therapidlydeterioratingsocialstructureisgivingrisetothe
formationofsub-societies.
• Thesocialvaluesthatwerevalidforasimpleagriculturalsociety
ofthepastareincontinuousclashwiththevaluesspawnedby
thegrowingWesternizationofthecountry
• Politicianswhoseprincipalgoalisthepurelypersonaloneof
retainingpowerdependonsub-groupstosecuretheirtenureby
fairmeansorfoul.

7. IDEOLOGY OF SELF-INTEREST
• Theconstantdeteriorationofoursocietyhasbeenaccompanied
bythepopularadoptionoftheideologyofself-interest
• Theobsessionwiththepursuitofprivategainhasbecomean
institutionalimperativeofasocietywhosetraditionalinstitutions
areintheprocessofcollapse.
• Theconstrictedgoalsofacolonialpeoplemustbereplacedby
thebroadergoalsofafreeandinspiredpeoplewhowouldbe
willingtoembraceamoreausterebutmoremeaningfullife.

8. The End
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ALIENATED FILIPINO