The Memory Hole
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…”
Everyone knows this line.
It’s repeated in classrooms, quoted by politicians, and slapped onto patriotic merchandise.
But what about the rest of the Declaration of Independence?
Do you remember what comes next?
You don’t. And that’s not an accident.
You are experiencing a memory hole.
In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, the government had a system for erasing inconvenient truths.
Old newspapers, contradicting reports, historical facts—anything that didn’t align with the “official” version of reality was dropped down the memory hole.
Gone. Deleted. Scrubbed from existence.
But here’s the terrifying part:
The system worked so well that even the people who once knew the truth eventually forgot it ever existed.
⚠ This isn’t just fiction. It’s happening to you. Right now.
They don’t have to erase the past—they just have to erase it in our collective memory.
The human brain wasn’t designed for a world where information disappears.
We rely on history. We rely on records. We rely on shared memory.
When those things are taken from us, we lose our ability to trust what we know.
This is how they control you.
Not with force. Not with guns. Not with open dictatorship.
But by erasing the things you once knew were true—until you forget they ever existed.
The memory hole didn’t erase the Declaration— that would be too obvious.
It simply erased its meaning.
The next sentence that you are forgetting says:
“When a government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it.”
Why do you only remember the first sentence, but not the part that gives you power?
This is how the memory hole works.
They don’t erase history outright. Instead, they trim it down, repackage it, and feed it back to you in bite-sized, harmless pieces.
This happens so slowly that you come to accept it as truth, even though you know better. Even though you could easily read for yourself and expose the lie.
You’re allowed to remember the parts that make you obedient.
You’re not allowed to remember the parts that make you powerful.
What else have they made you forget?
