What happens when a society decides truth is too uncomfortable to bear?
Professor Harold Dunst never imagined that quoting Aristotle would end his career. But when he tells his philosophy class that "truth exists independently of how you feel about it," a student's tears spark a national crisis.
Welcome to 2025, where words have been "therapeutically edited" to protect feelings. Where cancer becomes "cellular diversity experience." Where failure is "success-adjacent." Where reality itself has been cushioned, filtered, and euphemized into oblivion.
As the Ministry of Narrative Harmony rewrites dictionaries and the Bureau of Reassurance monitors every conversation, a handful of resisters fight back: an underground librarian hiding banned books, a news anchor tired of lying, a teenager who accidentally leaks the real statistics, and students demanding to know what 2+2 actually equals.
"The Truth Hurts. So We Banned It." is a darkly comic exploration of what we lose when we prioritize comfort over clarity. Through interconnected stories of collapse and resistance, this satirical novel asks: Can a civilization survive when it can no longer name its problems?
Brilliantly funny yet chillingly plausible, this is 1984 meets Brave New World for the age of safe spaces and trigger warnings. A cautionary tale about the tyranny of kindness, the violence of euphemism, and the revolutionary act of calling things what they are.
Some truths hurt. That's how you know they matter.
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Praise For The Truth Hurts. So We Banned It."Uncomfortably relevant and impossibly funny, I couldn't put it down." —M.K.
"The most important book you'll read this year, disguised as satire." —J.R.T.
"Finally, someone said what we're all thinking but too afraid to say." —A.L.M.
"Orwell would approve. Sharp, savage, and terrifyingly prescient." —D.K.W.
"I laughed, I cringed, I checked if this was actually fiction."—S.P.H.
Professor Harold Dunst never imagined that quoting Aristotle would end his career. But when he tells his philosophy class that "truth exists independently of how you feel about it," a student's tears spark a national crisis.
Welcome to 2025, where words have been "therapeutically edited" to protect feelings. Where cancer becomes "cellular diversity experience." Where failure is "success-adjacent." Where reality itself has been cushioned, filtered, and euphemized into oblivion.
As the Ministry of Narrative Harmony rewrites dictionaries and the Bureau of Reassurance monitors every conversation, a handful of resisters fight back: an underground librarian hiding banned books, a news anchor tired of lying, a teenager who accidentally leaks the real statistics, and students demanding to know what 2+2 actually equals.
"The Truth Hurts. So We Banned It." is a darkly comic exploration of what we lose when we prioritize comfort over clarity. Through interconnected stories of collapse and resistance, this satirical novel asks: Can a civilization survive when it can no longer name its problems?
Brilliantly funny yet chillingly plausible, this is 1984 meets Brave New World for the age of safe spaces and trigger warnings. A cautionary tale about the tyranny of kindness, the violence of euphemism, and the revolutionary act of calling things what they are.
Some truths hurt. That's how you know they matter.
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Praise For The Truth Hurts. So We Banned It."Uncomfortably relevant and impossibly funny, I couldn't put it down." —M.K.
"The most important book you'll read this year, disguised as satire." —J.R.T.
"Finally, someone said what we're all thinking but too afraid to say." —A.L.M.
"Orwell would approve. Sharp, savage, and terrifyingly prescient." —D.K.W.
"I laughed, I cringed, I checked if this was actually fiction."—S.P.H.
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