The Assault on Freedom of Thought

It is an unmistakable trait of tyrannical epochs to attack the freedom of thought, which manifests itself in the detestable form of censorship. This delirium of subjecting souls to uniformity has fortunately never been realized, although the violence employed to achieve it has always achieved patent results. Ideological censorship is a crime, unjustifiable from any point of view; it is a disgrace in every century and a condemnation of the very values on which it thinks it stands. That is why today’s attempt to bend authors of the past to the despicable ideology that has dominated Western thought by subjugating universities and the media will be a permanent blemish. Only incurable scoundrels find anything remotely reasonable in censoring those who, dead, cannot defend themselves; in adulterating their words, falsifying them, and selling as theirs lines that they never wrote. Beyond that, there is nothing to be said.