The Nora Aunor kerfuffle: zero bearing on ordinary lives

The kerfuffle over Nora  Aunor’s place in the pantheon of  Filipino artists (that pitted the culture types against President Aquino and  the powers-that-be) was mostly  lost on the ordinary Joes—people of my kind and station in life with no interest in culture whatsoever.

We are, sadly, the type described by H.L. Mencken  in  “The Sahara of the Bozart,” his indictment of the cultural vacuity of the American South.