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CALLER: good evening, dj cicero. i'm a foreigner, and my name is bob. you see, i just moved here in the philippines, and i wanted to know all about it, its history, culture, and so on and so forth. i was just reading its history somewhere, and i saw that there have been three People Powers already! what's up with the philippines and their obssession with rallies?

DJ CICERO: hello, and what's up, bob? yes, i've noticed the trend too with the philippines and their rally obssession. (see, these kinds of things are not nothing! they're something!) my good, late friend burrhus frederic skinner (1904-1990, by the way) can explain the filipino's love for rallying and forcefully usurping our nation's leaders.

you see, he believes that freedom is merely an illusion, and all our actions are just behaviors "conditioned" by stimuli all around us, in our environment. relating to the filipinos, their "stimulus" for people power 1 was marcos. by learning how to utilize that stimulus to get a result, or start a rally in EDSA to overthrow the president, they realized that they can do this anytime they think that the president is a wart. but we know that way of thinking is wrong.

thank you for calling, bob, and i hope i was able to enlighten you a bit about the filipinos!