When Truth Becomes Treason
If your government fears books more than bullets, it’s not preserving freedom, it’s preparing to rewrite reality.
A coordinated attack on knowledge is dismantling America’s intellectual backbone. Scientific institutions are gutted, research budgets slashed, and schools coerced to rewrite history, not to correct excess, but to install dogma.
From purging NIH cancer research and deleting DEI databases to reimagining libraries as propaganda arms, the state is replacing truth-seeking with obedience. This isn’t budget tightening, it’s power consolidation through epistemic sabotage.
Democracy depends on the ability to ask uncomfortable questions. If knowledge becomes conditional, what future can we possibly design with blindfolds on?
In times of erasure, remembering becomes resistance. What truth would you preserve if the archive vanished overnight?
Read the full article on The Atlantic.
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