Rewriting History to Remake America
In his classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell wrote, “Those who control the past, control the future. Those who control the present, control the past.” Mass-murdering dictator Mao Tse-tung of Communist China understood this well, which is why he worked relentlessly to erase Chinese history and replace it with a fraudulent version taught to children in indoctrination centers masquerading as schools.
While America has not reached the point at which a totalitarian, oligarchical government can simply send all contrary views down a “memory hole,” as in Orwell’s book, or rewrite history out of whole cloth, as Mao did, the United States is indeed witnessing an effort to alter Americans’ understanding of the past.
This indoctrination begins in America’s public-school classrooms in kindergarten and continues through graduate school, and poses an existential threat to the nation and its freedoms.
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