Erasing History: The Trump Administration's Memory Hole | Tao Te Ching Ch. 25
They didn't just remove a historical exhibit. A federal judge had to order them to put it back.
In Part 1 of The Memory Hole trilogy, Lloyd Dobler takes Chapter 25 of the Tao Te Ching and uses it to diagnose the Trump administration's favorite three-step wellness routine: delete the receipts, slap "unity" on the lie, and scream DOW 50,000 like it's moral absolution.
This episode is about erasure. The Stonewall flag. The Philadelphia slavery panels. The Smithsonian reframing directive. And the thing nobody in the outrage coverage is saying: we're not watching history get erased. We're watching the erasure of the erasure's correction. The memory hole has a memory hole inside it.
Featuring: Orwell (reluctantly), Oney Judge, Lao Tzu, and the witness protection program for your soul.
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