make for strange but helplessly entangled bedfellows. Like a snake eating its own tail, stars become statesmen and the converse, in a feedback loop that has left us with action stars in Congress; a slew of former Governor ER Ejercito’s technically ambitious, though somewhat vain, movies; and actor and former President, Erap Estrada.
In this untamed new world, the lines are blurrier. A star doesn’t need to be a politician to become political, and the average Joe doesn’t need much beyond the zeitgeist to “cancel” them if they say or do something offensive. Just as communication was democratized, so has power. In international relations, there is a doctrine on proportional response – a complex idea that can boil down to: an eye for an eye. If someone attacks you, you are allowed to respond in a more or less equivalent manner to restore a semblance of balance, rather than escalating the situation. You don’t throw a nuke at someone throwing stones. You don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. because of Binoy, when doing so penalized innocent bystanders .
Art is the favored child of free speech and celebrity, its beautiful bastard child. The work and its maker both hold captivating truth and/or beauty. Our Spanish colonizers showed they knew both could move mountains when they put to death Jose Rizal, who had written of ugly truths beautifully. Clearly our national hero’s execution had been wrong, and local creators the internet disagrees with shouldn’t be sent to Bagumbayan.
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