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A year when books were wrapped in foil to protect children from ideas, museums put up cordons inside exhibition halls, and container classrooms were described as better than real schools.
A year when government officials admitted—by accident—that telling the truth would be a problem. When inflation was celebrated for being pushed down to levels the EU had already reached months earlier.
A year of symbolic politics, public absurdities, moral panics, propaganda spectacles, and selective outrage—where nothing felt extraordinary anymore, precisely because everything was.
This was not chaos. This was normalization.
And that is exactly why 2023 should not be forgotten.