It might be all right to shock people once in a while--it is like shaking a drawer full of stuff so that everything settles in and allows you to put more stuff inside. When it becomes a habit, though, it becomes completely adolescent, like that of a misunderstood boy with a chip on his shoulder.

Yes, it has occurred to me that the average Filipino is in fact adolescent--in his taste for TV shows, movies, entertainment, and the like. this is the kind of person advertisers sell their products to. It just becomes difficult for intellectuals to talk to them on their own level and in their own terms, especially if neither the adolescent nor the intellectual is willing to meet the other halfway.