The Crime Is Not Control — It’s Amnesia
Power has always controlled. That is not the scandal. The scandal is that no one remembers it ever being otherwise. The final evolution of the Divine Right was not domination—it was forgetting . Forgetting that power once needed crowns. Forgetting that obedience once required force. Forgetting that submission was ever named as such. When people forget, control no longer feels imposed. It feels normal . Amnesia is the most stable form of rule. Kings ruled bodies. Systems rule memory. They do not need you to obey if they can convince you that nothing else ever existed. That the current order is not a choice, not a construction, not a strategy—but reality itself. This is why history is constantly rewritten, softened, reframed. Revolutions are romanticized. Tyranny is isolated to villains. Structures are absolved. Continuity is erased. Every era is presented as an improvement, even when the mechanisms of control have only become more refined. If the past is crude, the present feels e...