Unnecessary Fiction

I like "Looking Back" with Ambeth Ocampo. He once wrote that the Code of Kalantiaw was a hoax, as declared by the National Historical Institute in 2004. Furthermore, he said hoaxes are usually half-truths that could be fascinating because, like in this case, it "feed(s) on our continuing search for a nation  and
a Filipino identity." It "create(s) what Caroline Hau has aptly termed ' necessary fictions.'"

We don't need fiction in mediation. Truth is strange enough, sometimes. And
facts can imitate fiction, too.