A meeting of the minds at the senate..

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Whether the senate inquiry yesterday afternoon about the Kulo exhibit at the CCP was a waste of taxpayers' money or not, because a group claims the inquisition is in defense of Christianity alone, respecifically Catholicism, what was more exciting was the seeming meeting of the minds that the invited resource persons kindly shared. The artist in question was a now show, I could understand that. But he would not have mattered at all. For there was enough brains and intelligence in pianist Raul Sunico, chair of CCP and dean of UST College of Music, Director Abrera of the CCP board,Bishop Jose Palma, the representative of the CBCP, novelist F. Sionil Jose, from the literary world....etcetera. Senator Estrada's usual style of unnerving the guests was overshadowed by the well educated speeches and responses of the learned, the calm and composed assessment of what had happened, and the gentle manner by which problems must be solved. Senator Escudero, speaking in the vernacular and his particular monotone trademark, though equipped with sound judgment, was diminished by the splendid rhetoric of the distinguished guests. By way of summation, one resource person implied that art, by and large, depicts what the people are, and perhaps it is fitting to take a look at ourselves now, beginning with the inquisitors, and see if we like what we perceive....