Tag Archives: Bangkok Music City

Music Cities, Gentrification, and Who Should Pay for Culture

I wrote an article quite a while ago titled ‘Reasons why the Government should pay for Creative Arts’. I still stand by every word of it. However, I haven’t yet tackled the even more difficult question that follows: How should the government actually pay for them?

Is it Imposter Syndrome or do I actually suck at appreciating my successes?

When I was a teenager, my mom used to tell me that I “undersell” myself. She insisted I was much more capable than I led people to believe. But I never felt comfortable with that praise—mostly because I still remember her complaining that while I was good at many things, I was never “the best” at any of them.