As if the hardships brought about by the months-long pandemic are not enough, the glaring disarray at the highest levels of the country’s leadership is aggravating matters, causing more public anxiety and confusion. Take presidential spokesperson Harry Roque’s fatuous hairsplitting on the definition of mass testing. On May 18, Roque said the government was aiming to raise its testing capacity for COVID-19 to 30,000 a day, “but in terms of mass testing like what is being
One of the most memorable contributions of American philosopher Fredric Jameson is his concept of “nostalgia for the present.” On the surface, the idea makes no sense, since nostalgia is supposed to be retrospective, reaching far into the recesses of our memory box. Think of the intoxicating sensation after stumbling upon
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