There’s something surreal about standing at the edge of history’s echo chamber.
You feel it too 🤨
Watching as the world doubles back on itself, replaying scenes we swore we’d never revisit.
And yet, here we are, discussing moves that feel like they’re straight out of the Dark Ages playbook, only this time with National Public Radio (NPR and every other Public Broadcast).
Humans succumbed to all manner of evil as ignorant peasants, slaves.
In the Dark Ages, much of Europe saw knowledge hoarded by the elite, often concentrated within the Church or ruling classes.
Literacy was a privilege, and access to books—hand-copied manuscripts—was severely limited.
This suppression of knowledge kept the majority of people uninformed and reliant on those in power for guidance, creating a system where control was maintained through ignorance.
Fast-forward to 2025, and while books and information are no longer scarce (depending on your community) the control of knowledge has taken a modern form.
Disinformation campaigns, algorithm-driven echo chambers, and strategic defunding of public education and trusted media (like NPR) have created a landscape where truth feels fragmented and hard to access.
The result?
A populace vulnerable to manipulation, where critical thinking and nuanced debate are stifled in favor of divisive simplistic rhetoric and narcissistic narratives.
In both eras, power is sustained by limiting access to reliable information, whether through scarcity or overwhelming noise.
And just like the Dark Ages, this control is not merely about ignorance—it’s about consolidating power, maintaining hierarchies, and quashing dissent.
The key difference is that in 2025, the tools for liberation are in our hands—literally, in the form of smartphones and internet access.
The proposed cuts to NPR’s federal funding—an act that, at first blush, seems like just another budgetary adjustment but reveals itself as something far more calculated.
Public radio, with its measured tones and nuanced takes, its life-saving measures for immediate weather alerts, its reach to News Desserts, it’s Integrity for Truth and Curiosity, Trust.
NPR has long been a refuge for those seeking clarity in the cacophony of modern media.
Cutting its lifeline?
That’s not just a fiscal decision; it’s an act of aggression, a deliberate dimming of one of the few remaining lights of accessible, balanced information.
It’s almost laughable, isn’t it?
The idea that in our United of America ~ beacon of Democracy and Equality, in our year 2025, we’d be revisiting strategies straight out of the authoritarian playbook: keep them in the dark, feed them just enough to stay distracted, and watch as the groundwork for control quietly cements itself.
Uninformed humans, as we’ve said, are easily manipulated humans.
When we control the narrative—or better yet, make sure there’s no narrative at all—we’ve essentially won the game.
And what a game it is.
Remember that “Lemmings” game where the winner was the one who led the most followers to their demise?
Doesn’t it feel eerily similar to what’s unfolding, all around our Earth?
Only this time, it’s not a game.
The stakes are real, the casualties are society’s collective intelligence, and the prize is… what exactly?
More money, more power, more control for those already drowning in all three?
But here’s where the narrative twists—because humor lives in the spaces between frustration and resolve, doesn’t it?
The ability to laugh at the absurdity of it all, to poke fun at the audacity of such naked power grabs, is its own form of rebellion. GREENLAND? What are You huffin’?
Humor says, We see you, and we’re not impressed.
It’s the gallows humor of the informed, the resilient, and the justifiably exasperated.
So yes, it feels like we’re back in the Dark Ages—only now with smartphones and streaming services Yahooza ~ possibilities for instant Love, Sharing, Connecting
Knowledge, once hoarded by the elite, is again under attack in subtler, more insidious ways.
This time, we have tools they didn’t.
We have platforms to amplify the voices they’d rather silence.
We have communities that can come together—even virtually—to question, to learn, to resist. (psst … Driven Women)
The trick is not to let the despair settle.
Yes, the stakes are high.
Yes, the moves are infuriatingly transparent.
But ~ we’ve got something they can’t manipulate: the capacity to dream beyond the illusions they’re selling, to create something better, and to laugh while we’re at it.
Because laughter, dear heart, is magic they’ll never quite understand—a spell of clarity, resistance, and joy wrapped into one.
And so, as the shadow of control looms larger, the light of collective curiosity and love burns brighter.
We’re here, still standing, still questioning, still laughing—because that’s what humans who refuse to play along do.
That’s what makes us unstoppable.