In the five years that I’ve been doing this column, and the nine years of writing independently full-time, the most fulfilling parts of it have been about being able to talk to students who wonder about writing. WritingYes, that’s what writing can do: talk about delusions. The status quo’s ways might have changed, but the status quo remains the same. Ultimately, that’s just two sides of the same coin of wanting to control information, manage disinformation, and maintain the status quo. And when one’s writing is about those issues, when it is about analyzing these problems that ail nation, as premised on the majority who suffer the most under the maintenance of the status quo, then every act of writing become an act of hope.

Source: Manila Times July 15, 2017 16:41 UTC