I am an academic and intellectual, not a politician or theologian. I argue based on rationale and reasonable justifications rather than simply accepting dogma. If they think I am wrong, then prove me, and I will listen; this is the essence of being a scholar (Brillo 2025).
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Ang matalino discusses ideas and events; ang less matalino primarily discusses people’s gossip. There is substantive literature, from Socrates to Nikola Tesla to the present day (Brillo 2018, 2024 [message and lecture]).😊
If I concur with you and provide preferential treatment, it will undermine me (Brillo 2024 [message and lecture]).
Scholarship
Always remember that teaching and research take the highest precedence in scholarship. Other aspects are essential but considered subordinate (Brillo 2023, 2024, 2025 [message and lecture]).
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You can only prolong, but not ignore. You can only delay, but not stop (Brillo 2013, 2024 [message and lecture]).
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Running and Ultramarathons to Hiking.
Run Long! Run Strong! (Brillo 2011, 2022 [message and battle cry]).
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Brillo, B.B. (2012). A Theoretical Review on Philippine Policy Making: The Weak State-Elitist Framework and the Pluralist Perspective. Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society, 39(1): 54-76 (JSTOR). https://www.jstor.org/stable/23645264
Brillo, B.B. (2025). Government Lake’s Concept and Complications regarding the Crater Lakes of Laguna and Quezon Provinces. Discover Water, 5(91): 2025 (Springer). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43832-025-00260-8
