How does freedom die?

Not the way you’d reasonably expect with guns and bombs. Usually it’s stealthily given away bit by bit, inch by inch without barely anyone noticing. And it’s all for our own good.

First they tell us to stop doing supposedly unhealthy practices such as arcane methods of meditation / exercise for fear of corrupting influences. We shrug and agree since it’s for our own good.

Then they censor movie and books to shield us from perfidious degenerate thoughts. We shrug and agree since it’s for our own good.

What kinda inappropriate dressing is this!!
Then they tell us to dress appropriately for our gender to ward away unwanted harassment. We shrug and agree since it’s for our own good.

Then they separate cafes / stores / cinemas according to gender for our own convenience so we don’t feel intimidated. We shrug and agree since it’s for our own good.

Then they tell us to stay home during certain hours of the night to be safe from harm. We shrug and agree since it’s for our own good.

Then they keep us away from schools and universities since unhealthy wicked practices are being spread there to divert us from the true path. We shrug and agree since it’s for our own good.

Then they extend the curfew hours to keep us home. We want to shrug and agree but we know it’s wrong. By then we want to raise a protest but it’s already far too late. The gates are shut. And we are all cabinned, cribbed and confined.

Why are we cabinned, cribbed and confined!!
And it all happens just because we shrug and agree.

So listen to the near-prophetic words of lil Marji in Persepolis. Be afraid. Be very afraid.