After one year in power, it is vital for us Filipinos to pay attention to the performance of the Duterte administration. This is my objective assessment on the current administration’s program on agriculture as a fundamental sector in the country.
During the 1980s through the ‘90s, studies about reducing sleep came out. Those types of researches posit that sleep is only something that our minds have been programmed to do. It also says that there must be a way to reduce sleep, if not eliminate it, because time is better spent working than just lying in bed, with eyes closed, doing nothing.
Then I cannot help but ask myself why are we allowing these things to happen to us here in Mindanao? Quo vadis, Mr. President?
The venue that Sense8 provided for discussion of these liberal-democratic themes is needed, and indeed is probably the apparent take-away for many of its viewers. But there is another important thematic direction this series opens that offers a more radical imagining of present society beyond the limits of typical liberal-democratic discourse.
I hear you cry, Marawi! Across the mountainslopes, hills and plains, The winds, heavy with the moist of tears, On their wings the bundles of your grief, Reached me at the threshold of my heart And perturbed my conscious communion With the hours of the Ramadan.