The Burden Of Proof

 I was reading about how the new Trumpreich wants to have all government agencies get rid of all DEI departments and commitments. That's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for those of you who may have missed that chapter of American History. I bring this up because apparently part of this movement includes limiting what parts of history are taught to our governmental hires. Specifically, the removal of a video that was included in the Air Force's basic training curriculum at the Joint Air Base in San Antonio. If you are unfamiliar with the Tuskegee Airmen, then you will have something in common with new Air Force recruits. Or if you didn't know anything about the WASPs. 

Now for the cretinous part: In 2020, a (checks notes) Donald Trump serving in the capacity of "president" of the United States promoted Charles McGee, the last surviving Tuskegee Airman, to brigadier general. McGee died in 2022, right about the time Project 2025 was being written, effectively whitewashing all future history for those of us who hadn't bothered to learn it back when it was diverse. 

Like so much else that piles up around the drains of the sequel to the worst presidency of all time, this one is just a harbinger of things to come. But today it dawned on me that there may be a deeper, more troubling source of all this limiting of information. The former game show host and his minions just may not be bright enough to absorb new information. This would explain why they want to ban books and shut down PBS and NPR. Too many words. Too many ideas. We may have stumbled into an era where, for some, there is just too much to keep in their tiny brains. Much in the same way Emperor Joseph II of Hapsburg responded to hearing Mozart. 

We may have reached the end of the Information Age simply because those walking around with limited space on their meaty hard drives have run out of space. Rather than simply acknowledge the lack of capacity or understanding, it makes more sense for them to simply ask PBS to stop making twelve hour documentaries about things that they never fully understood in the first place. Like Baseball. And the Civil War. 

Little tidbits like the fact that slaves were used to build the White House and the Capitol might just go by the wayside. The guy who invented peanut butter was African-American and headed up the Agriculture Department at Tuskegee University. And the forty-fifth president of the United States was convicted of thirty-four felonies. 

Keep reading. Keep thinking. Even when it becomes "out of fashion."