There is a reason I Dreamed a Dream hits Filipinos harder than a typhoon advisory. It is a song built on hope, cracked open by reality, and left standing in the rubble. If that does not sound like the national emotional template, I do not know what does. When Fantine sings about losing the life she once believed in, she
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— What We Have Is Not a Strategy. It’s a Souvenir. Let’s start with a fable. Once upon a time in the archipelago, a group of technocrats asked the nation:“Where do you want to be in 25 years?” And the people said:We want to be secure.We want to be comfortable.We want to be respected, healthy, together, whole.We want jobs that