Have you noticed that thinking for yourself is now considered elitist? Being educated is suspicious. Checking facts is somehow censorship.
Congrats, you are living through the collapse of intellectualism. It didn’t happen overnight. It was methodical, and here is how it works.
Step 1: Rebrand ignorance as common sense. If a fact makes you uncomfortable, it’s fake news. If history proves you wrong, it never happened.
Step 2: Attack expertise. Doctors must be lying for profit. Professors are indoctrinating your kids. Journalists are secret agents of the deep state.
Step 3: Replace knowledge with loyalty. You don’t need evidence, just the right echo chamber. You don’t need research, just rage.
And that’s how we got here, where banning books is called freedom, and asking questions gets you labelled. Your learning makes you the enemy. Because controlling what people think wasn't enough – they had to destroy how we think.
William Perry
Victoria
