Set to lead: Marcos Jr speaking during a news conference at his headquarters in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila. — Reuters
“Perception is real, the truth is not,” former first lady Imelda Marcos once infamously claimed. The philosopher Theodor Adorno once described modern politics as a struggle between “mythos” (subjective-mythical thinking) and “logos” (factual-logical reasoning).
What has been at the heart of the Marcoses’ bid to reclaim Malacañan Palace is clearly a politics of mythos – or, to put it more bluntly, a set of radically revisionist claims that found a fertile ground on social media and among millions of disaffected Filipinos.
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