Facebook Blurb # 16 – The Years of Living Dangerously

Throwback to March 17, 2016

Watching Carlos Celdran’s cheeky but compelling version of the Marcos era and its excesses (“Living La Vida Imelda”) recollected a dark and dismal chapter in Philippine affairs, when the trappings of economic prosperity concealed the otherwise systematic plundering of the nation’s wealth and the abject transgression of its people’s civil liberties and human rights. To a post-martial law baby like Lica, it opened up a period in history which was, at best, glossed over by a curriculum that ignored those shameful, but no less significant, years of living dangerously.