Bachelor of Arts major in Communication Arts student Angelica reacts to people belittling her and others because they are studying something that not everyone understands the concept of. She shares her frustration in a way of educating people who do not know what they do in the Liberal Arts. Good read.
“Ate ano po ba ginagawa niyo sa Communication Arts?”
It’s not a question that I can answer independently. This is a field for the liberal and intellectual. This is not a field for memorizing all the mathematical equations and for you to expect us to answer them all, and if we can not answer them you’d consider us “intellectually incapable.” We do not partake in memorizing the “objectives.” What do I mean by “objectives?” Objectives are those with already an existing answer. We are the field that “subjects” everything. To make it sound easier, “objectives” are the sciences and the mathematics. They have the definite results and answers. We, the “liberal arts” are the men and women who would “subject” the existing world for all that it lacks or it has. If you were to eliminate all that “subjects” (us), the men and women of the liberal arts, there you have the world of “finiteness.” The media will be gone, the very media that once (or twice) united the Filipinos against countless regimes of suppressive governments (Dare I say our very own La Solidaridad), in fact 51% of the population in our country are uneducated voters because they lack the kind of “thinking” that courses in our department offers.
The very articles that you are reading right now inRappler? Who wrote those articles that made you realize that Atty. Defensor is the better candidate?
Liberal arts majors.
This is a vague example but there are so much more I can credit my major for.
If we were to put an end to the freedom of expressing ourselves that contain opinions different from the “objects” that already have their definitions would result in a catastrophe, and the “nightmare” in George Orwell’s 1984 would take place.
You see, you cannot undervalue the arts (or the liberal arts) when compared to the sciences and the mathematics because you cannot compare a subjective to an objective. It’s like comparing William Shakespeare to Albert Einstein, both masters of their respective platforms.
So please, don’t refer to us in phrases like: “AB lang ‘yan.”
(photo cto: berlin-artparasites, your favorite source of hipster-ness)
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