We're back with another Holiday Special! This time, we talk about the origins of Christmas, and how it has evolved into the event we love (or hate) today.

For this episode of Debatable, we explore the Finals motion of Mindanao Intervarsity 2021 which is about the Main Character Syndrome! In popular culture, the main character syndrome refers to the trend where people, mostly the youth, imagine themselves in a romanticized, fictional version of their lives. This manifests in the way people present themselves online, or even in the way people view themselves in relation to others.

Motion: This House would embrace the narrative that individuals are the main characters of their lives.

Solastalgia describes psychological trauma brought about by climate change. In this episode, we talk about how the climate crisis impacts mental health and what that could mean for environmentalist movements.

This week, we talk about a startup CEO facing trial for fraud, new developments on the Afghan refugee crisis, the "resetting" of US-Israel relations, the Pharmally Pharmaceuticals scandal, Texas' abortion ban, and a recall election in California,

Climate change skeptics have accumulated a lot of different arguments over the years with the common goal of making people doubt the role of man in the destruction of the environment. For this episode, we take a look at some of those arguments. We debunk these ideas and discuss why these arguments come about in the first place.

For this matterloading session, we discuss the top stories of the week. We focus heavily on the situation unfolding in Afghanistan. Join us as we unravel the events that led to the takeover of Kabul, and the role played by major political actors all around the world.

For this episode, we discuss the mutations of the COVID-19 virus, and what that means for all of us now and in the future.

For this matterloading session, we tackle the recent Belo Ad scandal, the misused 67 billion pesos, the new leadership in Iran, as well as Sudan’s handing over of Omal Al-Bashir to the ICC. We also talked heavily about a lot of environmental news that hit the internet this week!

Debatable issues in the pro-wrestling industry and John Cena have at least two things in common: one, you can't see them; two, you actually can, you just pretend not to.

We have a lot to cover this week! We tried our best to make the stories featured this week reflect a bunch of different fields. We have stories about COVID. About international relations and international law. We even talk about why Rihanna's being a billionaire status matters to what the feminist movement should strive to be!

 

But we spend a lot of time discussing things that hit close to home--  about the surprisingly layered issue that is Nas Academy allegedly exploiting National Living Treasure and indigenous tattooist Whang Od. How should content creators behave when selling products? Why is pinoybait a thing? How important is consent in the commercialization of indigenous culture? Can traditional knowledge be protected by copyright? So many questions! So little time!