Official power works by making citizens forget state-sanctioned violence.

Evidence

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting,” states Rana Ayyub in Gujarat Files, a lucid testimony of that stretch when Muslims were brutally slain under Modi’s watch in 2002. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 482

Categorization

• APHORISMS: Timeless advice-level wisdom about how power operates through erasure of memory — the struggle against power is the struggle to remember.
• XREF: Connects to the burnout/silence theme of forgetting being permanent only in death; echoes Orwellian memory-erasure tropes.