Gusto ko ng baboy

This is an insight about pigs, and a scrutiny in a Radioactive Sago’s song, as the pig would seem as a comparative parameter to many ideas such as politics and pop culture. The pig is a present element in the society and is subject to support and disdain, such as other elements in the society. As the pig is emphasized as an important niche, the pig must be a controversial concept, exhibited in different roles for the pig. In Gusto ko ng baboy, the persona is asking for a pig from his mother. The mother asks the persona’s need for a pig, and answers that the pig is an attention grabber especially from his teachers, and would expect a reward of high grades. This is a relation to a man’s consciousness to direct attention to him, and be at the top position among his peers and receive their approval. The mother, despite the son’s rational need for a pig, denies the provision.

The pig is also referred to be as many members of debatable notions such as the contrast of Gusto ko ng baboy to the existence of a god and being a pig. The weight of the comparison is significant, for the author to make a proposition that a supreme being must be a creature of lower importance and unclean lifestyle. With this, inferences can arise that the existence of god is of no lavish experience and not necessarily a holy appeal or any existence of supremacy is falsified. It is suggested that a pig can be any member of the society, and probably the world is composed of pigs; all is foul, dirty and impure.