"Over the past two hundred and forty nine years, Americans have witnessed an organized and insidious campaign to convince them that past events occurred. Without proof, the perpetrators of this distorted narrative claim that, previous to the present moment, Americans did things that were good, or, more troubling, bad. The purported existence of historical events against which to compare the present is a radical-left campaign to cast my Administration in a negative light."
"Once this policy is enacted, it will be illegal for Americans to retain any mental impression longer than that little haptic buzz you get when you use Apple Pay. This will once and for all liberate our great nation from the burden of remembering what they were so mad about. Was it a judge, or a Constitution thing? Something where they replaced the health-care system with a hot glass suction cup?"
The order proclaims a policy to permanently outlaw the past by making retention of mental impressions beyond a brief haptic buzz illegal. It characterizes historical awareness as a radical-left campaign intended to undermine the Administration and lists vivid, absurd examples of past events targeted for suppression. The order directs the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with crypto-funded private-sector science, to pursue unrestricted research to eliminate historical elements from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. It threatens punitive measures for remembering and frames eradication of memory as national liberation through executive and scientific means.
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