Art, sensibilities, satirists, and cartoons. Or, religion and the power of words. Or, a first report on the terrorist attack in France on January 7.

ORDINARY CITIZEN'S NOTES. 7 JAN 2014. WED. N3.
Art, sensibilities, satirists, and cartoons. Or, religion and the power of words.
Or, a first report on the terrorist attack in France on January 7. 

SOME NINE HOURS AGO AS of this wring, 11 or 12 satirists and writers (including two policeman) died in a terrorist attack on a satirical paper, Charlie Hebdo. The total number of dead have yet to be finally determined. 

Art in all its form is a double-edged sword. 

It can be used by Goebbels for propaganda purposes, in much the same way the Cendeña National Media Production Center produced all those goody-goody things for us to accept in toto the truths of the New Society. 

Some Ilokano writers and magazines and newspapers played this role to the hilt, but now, we have forgotten. Or, praise those who connived to make this happen.

Kit Tatad, now a changed man, was one of them, of course, his face a permanent presence on TV in the early days of Martial Law. 

I teach Pop Culture, and one module of this course is dedicated to this problem of how pop art could be manipulated, but how pop art could be used for redemptive reasons. 

The redemptive directions comes only with a price: a resistance, a sustained resistance to the received dogmas and doctrines of our time.

This, to me, is the context why lives have been sacrificed at this terrorist attach in France some nine hours ago.

HON/