"We need a Dictator"

December 14, 2024 - Nathan

Ramon Villavicencio was asked if whether the Philippine Republic will be able to progress into a "Singapore like" in ten or twenty years from now.

His statements might be shocking and controversial to some but in a pragmatic lens he is right, he responded "Sad to say the problem is the Filipino people and we need a dictator to achieve that or to change the Filipino culture".

In a modern Filipino perspective the word dictator might be threatening or alienating but what Villavicencio meant is a centralize authoritarian state to cooperate and discipline both society and economy and reform the Filipino culture itself back into a collective culture rather than individualistic as it hinders and degenerates both society and economic progress for the betterment of all Filipinos.

In the path of José Antonio Primo de Rivera he rejected party politics, advocating for a single, unified state that prioritized the national interest above all else.

“The state is an instrument for the service of the nation, not a mechanism for the competition of parties.” -José Antonio Primo de