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The story below is fiction and written based on the following quote from the book 1984 and tied into today’s current political climate.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell 1984
Setting: Mark sits in a cluttered library office, surrounded by books, his voice a mix of exhaustion and defiance. The year is 2025, and the Trump administration has reinstated the 1776 Commission to reshape educational materials and public history.
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. I read that in 1984 years ago, and it sounded like a warning from another world. Now it’s my world. I’m just Mark, a librarian in a small town in Pennsylvania, someone who loves books, loves truth, loves the messy, complicated stories of our country. But they’re coming for those stories, and they’re coming for me. All because I wouldn’t play along.
It started when the school board got new ‘guidelines’ from the Department of Education in April 2025. They called it the ‘Patriotic Curriculum Initiative,’ tied to Trump’s revived 1776 Commission. The orders were clear: remove books that ‘undermine American exceptionalism.’ That meant anything about slavery’s legacy, indigenous displacement, or labor strikes, gone. Replace them with sanitized versions that glorify the Founding Fathers, downplay the Civil War’s causes, and erase the civil rights struggles. I saw the new textbooks: crisp, glossy, with whole chapters rewritten to say America was always a shining beacon, no flaws, no apologies. I refused to pull the old books. I couldn’t. Those stories, Frederick Douglass, Wounded Knee, Stonewall, they’re not just pages; they’re people’s lives.
Then the emails started. Parents, egged on by some MAGA group on X, called me a ‘radical’ for keeping ‘divisive’ books on the shelves. By May, I was summoned to a board meeting. They had a dossier. My social media posts from 2023, where I shared articles criticizing the administration’s history rewrite. Someone had flagged me to a federal ‘curriculum compliance’ task force, funded under the new executive order. Palantir’s software, the same one they use for deportations, was tracking ‘ideological dissent’ in schools. My name was in their system.
Last week, I got a letter: my librarian certification is ‘under review.’ My job’s hanging by a thread. Then my car loan got flagged for ‘reassessment,’ and I can’t access my savings account, some vague ‘security hold.’ I’m not a criminal. I’ve never protested, never marched. All I did was keep some books on a shelf and post a few thoughts online. But they’re erasing the past. Our real past and if you don’t nod along, they erase you too. The 1776 Commission’s report is everywhere now, plastered on government websites, taught in schools, even cited in court to justify ‘heritage’ laws. They control the present, so they rewrite the past, and the future? It’s theirs too. My library’s half-empty now, and I’m scared I’ll be next. Who’s left to remember the truth when they’ve burned it all away?"
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