Who are the people who populate arts and culture? The term CONSUMERS are not the exclusive use for shampoo brands, for rice and bread, for gadgets in the market. The policy makers, the executive department, the middle management, they are also consumers of the intangibles. I am a consumer of someone’s works existing today. If they exist today and they have overcome the test of time, the people who wrote or came up with these ideas, thoughts and findings are long dead. And those people are feeders in the same way as our farmers are. Good thing that our Intellectual Property Laws are in existence so we don’t have to preserve their works on grand architecture, murals, scribing and arches and sculptures which can take time. The pace of today’s life would be dizzying to them. In simple words, what worked then and why, the farmers absorbed in combating the pests and unfavorable weather for maximum harvest will not have the time to such things. You know who does? Who have the time and the motivation and the capability to preserve the legacy from the past in continuation and probably add some improvement? We do.

The cultural warfare, the vehicle and the tools to wage it, they are as much important as the industry that put literal food on the table. I am a writer. I am a music artist. I also get to appreciate the works of painter artists through their canvass. Even the futuristic portrayals, the abstracts will give clues as to the timeline of history when they were conceived. And that’s why my US visa application is Type P and/or Type O. By the way, the exceptions for the visa interview would be the renewals and I heard 14 years old. Since I do not fit those descriptions, the actual words I have to say are important.