America calls itself the land of the free. Yet the only freedom most Americans truly have is choosing which lie they will believe next.
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America calls itself the land of the free.
Yet the only freedom most Americans truly have is choosing which lie they will believe next.
Not freedom of thought, but freedom of illusion.
Not the right to truth, but the right to choose from a curated menu of fiction, tailored to taste, calibrated to identity, and engineered to divide.
Red lies or blue lies.
Corporate lies or military lies.
The lie of democracy in a rigged economy.
The lie of safety in a nation armed to the teeth and hollow at the core.
They are told they are free, as they drown in debt they can never repay.
They are told they are represented, as billionaires buy their lawmakers by the dozen.
They are told they are safe, as their country builds more enemies than hospitals.
Freedom in America means shouting into the void, while the machinery of empire grinds on, collecting souls and selling dreams.
It means pledging allegiance to a flag, while the government pledges allegiance to the highest bidder.
It means choosing your own version of the news, your own algorithm of outrage, your own corporate-sponsored echo chamber, where freedom feels like fury and truth is whatever hurts the other side.
The result is a nation so propagandized, it mistakes slavery for sovereignty and illusion for identity.
This is not liberty.
It is a managed hallucination.
And beneath the surface of every slogan lies a prison of the mind, built not with bars, but with choices that lead nowhere.
Because a cage is still a cage, even if you get to vote for the color of the walls.
And a lie is still a lie, even if you choose it freely.
posted by Satish Sharma at
04:25
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