Always, there lurks largesse in political appointments as if it were some natural order of things. Of course there is nothing natural about the order. It is an order after all. But the thing is that in the realm of culture, putatively rarefied, the grease is expected to be less slick. Well, putatively. And yes, supposedly less. The recent naming of certain people to some offices related to culture, broadly conceived here lest we earn the ire of scholars who diligently probe the intricacies of this contentious term, betrays that more of the same in politics is happening in the field of art and culture in the heady age of Duterte.
Yes, Mayor President, there are other sources of opiates in these parts.