Dr. Jose Rizal's presence on June 26, 1892 caused such a commotion in society that the Spanishcolonial authorities kept a close check on him. This was also due to the fact that Rizal was an outspoken critic of the administration. Rizal devoted his entire life to improving the lives of his countrymen. However, this was not the view of the administration. Prior to his return to the Philippines, he had already published essays in La Solidaridad, most notably the Indolence of theFilipinos, depicting the Filipinos' condition and the Spanish colonial rule. This paper attempts to examine Jose Rizal's essay, The Indolence of the Filipinos, through the lens of Jean Baudrillard's System of Objects. Contrary to what the Spaniards saw in the Filipinos – as indolent or slothful – Rizal saw it as a product of a functional system created by colonial domination; an atmosphere created by the Spanish authorities to subdue any resistance posed by the indios; or the Filipinos' inaction as a result of the created belief that the colonizers are mighty and they could do nothing but serve them; or that they were as good as plowing an It is worth noting that, despite the fact that these two great thinkers/writers coexisted, Rizal's works and life were dedicated to assisting his country in transitioning from therealities of the dominated to non-dominated – from slave to freemen; from uneducated to educated; and finally, from simpleindios to nationalist Filipinos. These social processes depicted in Rizal's Indolence of the Filipinos were also identified in Baudrillard's Systems of Objects discussion. And only through breaking the status code, as Baudrillard put it, can the true societal structure of free and intellectual Filipinos contribute to the improvement of the country, which is the ultimate goal of Rizal's life, our national hero.