An all-too-prescient quote from 1984, by George Orwell
"Do you, realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it's in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there. Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself: After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains. The only evidence is inside my own mind, and I don't know with any certainty that any other human being shares my memories. Just in that one instance, in my whole life, I did possess actual concrete evidence after the event – years after it."
— from 1984, by George Orwell
I have long believed that George Orwell was not incorrect when he wrote 1984 – considered at the time to be "dystopian fantasy," but in fact prescient and even prophetic – just a bit premature. Read this closely, and see if it is not beginning to happen, here and now! And the most ironic thing is that much of it is being done by people who consider themselves to be "liberals." Is this the future that we desire for ourselves, and our posterity? And if not, what are we going to do about it?