On a video podcast the other day, I made reference to the lockdown orders of March 2020. The host turned off the recording. He said it was fine to talk about this subject but from now on please refer to “the events of March 2020” with no specifics.
Otherwise, it will be taken down by YouTube and Facebook. He needs those platforms for reach, and reach is necessary for his business model.
I complied, but I was spooked. Are we really now in the position that talking about what happened to us is verboten on mainstream venues? Sadly, that seems to be where we headed. In big and small ways, and throughout the culture and the whole world, we are bit by bit being trained to forget and hence not learn and thus repeat the whole thing.
[That was George Orwell’s main point in 1984 about Big Brother and thought control. Winston Smith worked in the regime as someone who edited, changed, and erased history for the convenience of the approved narratives. It is designed to force us to forget, so as to avoid accountability. We have always been at war with Eastasia, Winston. — Ed]
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