“If I wasn’t a journalist, I would get off social media,” shares Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Ressa while talking about the future of democracy in Philippines and beyond.
Maria Ressa hasn’t eaten all day—but she hardly seems to need to, tiny as she is, smiling, full of talk, driven by some internal flywheel of restless, merry-warrior energy that never lets up.
Ressa and her staff at Rappler, which she helped found a decade ago, had fervently hoped for a different outcome. After six years under Duterte, whose strongman tactics fueled a violent drug war in his country, the candidacy of Vice President Leni Robredo suggested a brighter future.
Ressa is a science fiction fan—deep into our interview, she shyly admits to being a lifelong Trekkie—and her warnings about the “atomization of meaning,” as she calls it, where the onslaught of the attention economy has shrunk our focus to seconds, seem to come from a very near future. In the Philippines, “we’ve gone off the cliff,” she says. “And it’s coming for you.”
In the Philippines she’d had a strict all-girls Catholic education: “Benedictine nuns. Speak when you’re spoken to. You get hit by a ruler.” So she was recessive and quiet in class at first—“I didn’t speak English that well,” she remembers—and took refuge in music, playing piano and violin and studying hard. She was a good student, competitive and perilously close to a nerd, so she tried out for basketball and softball. “I didn’tto be a nerd,” she says.
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