Kudos are long overdue to America’s singular “Sanitation Department,” which, in its unique dynamic nuance, performs the singularly unique duty of creating, as well as removing, garbage from the otherwise pure, detritus-free consciousness of the American Reader, by its quasi-parental censorship. The nuance of such dedicated redeemers and protectors of moral rectitude is that they, in addition, generate and distribute. alternative rubbish when subjectively deemed appropriate. Notably, they experience little or no awareness of the chronic, ubiquitous commission of cognitive dissonance. It admittedly requires profound dedication to dutifully disseminate, as well as dispose of, society’s garbage.
Some illustrative and laudatory illustrations may be discerned in their morally responsible positions on “election fairness,” on American history, and sexual propriety. In each of these worthy contexts, the thematic “Sanitation Department” responsibly, and on occasion, religiously, takes on the tireless duties of removal, (“morally cleansing”) and, when appropriate, the substitution and distribution of selected, offal, subjectively deemed more desirable.
Such sanitation workers, (“garbagemen”) resolutely eliminate books and essays dealing with the subjects such as those, known as “The Trail of Tears,” referring to President Andrew Jackson’s “Indian Removal Act,” by which countless numbers of innocent, indigenous Americans were forcibly evicted from their traditional, fertile homelands and tragically force- marched to “more suitable injun territory,” viz., the windy, non-arable wastelands of Oklahoma. Yet, bizarrely, such individuals appear to evince no shame or self-consciousness relative to the current MAGA xenophobia, based upon which Hispanic immigrants peacefully residing and working, for decades, in the United States are unjustly and heartlessly banished from their homes, some to Nations they had fled for their lives, many others to foreign torture prisons.
An additionalo illustrative instance of substitute garbage-type cognitive dissonance is seen in their strident, but empirically false, assertions of “election rigging, in the face of Donald Trump’s nationally televised phone call to the Georgia Secretary of State, illegally requesting the numerical enhancement of his votes, in Republican laws and regulations making it diffiucult for minorities to cast their votes, and blatently unconstitutional “gerrymandering.” What seems preferable to the contextual collectors is the implementation of their own iteration of unconstitutional garbage, in harmony with their demagogically installed paranoid ideations.
The Nation’s dark period of black chattel slavery is deemed to be appropriately excised and eliminated from literary and pedagogic mention by such zealous sanitation workers, who, notwithstandingly, do not shy away from the promotion of racially motivated policies and the denigration of just policies of cultural rehabilitation, like affirmative action and DEI. No thought of cognitive dissonance disturbs the skewed cognition of America’s reductive sanitation workers.
Freedom of speech is universally accepted as basic and essential to the definitive existence of the Democratic Republic. The same constitutes a principle at least, nominally accepted by Americans of every stripe, inclusive of those who arrogate to themselves the singular duty of judgmental review of books and educational curricula. Nonetheless, the MAGA sanitation officials, governmental and civilian, with authoritarian zeal, have removed curricula and exerted harsh financial penalties on institutions of liberal higher education, perceived as despoiling young minds by the study of reductively perceived “liberal trash.” Such garbage collectors, apparently, are neither hesitant nor self-consciously diffident about matters, considerably above their mental pay grade, provided the same appear to be in sync with the groupthink of the political, semi-literate, sanitation Chief of State.
It may, conceivably, be seen by certain MAGA adherents that the singular responsiblility relating to the dynamic substitution of garbage deemed preferentially desirable for the less utilitarian, local variety, donated by such nations as Russia, China, North Korea, and Hungary, is appropriately reciprocal for the plethora of gifts of more pragmatic value from our Nation; however, in our view, it would inarguably be suitable to return the same, ASAP, to the “generous” donors.
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