Iconoclasm

"Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has actually been 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 rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the 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."
--Winston Smith (Nineteen Eighty Four)

Over the past few years, statists have increasingly engaged in iconoclasm. Iconoclasm is the attacking, rejection, or destruction of established beliefs, values, and practices along with their associated artifacts and institutions. In ancient times, the motivation was primarily religion. Today, iconoclasm is done mainly for political purposes (for statists, of course, politics is religion).

The objective of the campaign is to destroy or disparage American history. Sever ties with the past and perhaps US citizens will acquiesce once more to a state of despotism.

This week we celebrate the birth of a nation founded on the principle of liberty--a principle that the iconoclasts detest. The best way to foil the iconoclasts is to remember our founding, and to securely pass those memories to the next generation.