The season of anomie has arrived once again. This unsettling era, reminiscent of the days of General Sani Abacha’s oppressive regime, began in 2015. It is a stark reminder of the dark times when tyranny reigned supreme, now cloaked in the guise of democracy—much like Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. We must not forget how Hitler exploited racism to ascend as the "democratically elected" Chancellor of Germany. The outcome, as we all know, is a tragic chapter in history.

For those who cherish liberty, this is not a moment for silence or indifference, motivated by the desire to avoid being seen as politically partisan. In times of moral crisis, neutrality is not an innocent stance; it is a deliberate alignment with tyranny. As Martin Luther King Jr. poignantly stated, "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Today’s era will not be marked by the inflammatory statements and actions of ethnic opportunists who wield bigotry as a political tool to enable incompetent, insensitive, and self-serving leaders. Instead, history will highlight the deafening silence of so-called human rights advocates and others who, in the name of political correctness, speak with double standards.

These individuals refuse to confront the truth, unwilling to tell the "king" that he is parading through the village naked, oblivious to the reality of his own offensive actions. Despite the ongoing efforts to suppress freedom by criminalizing protests and dissent—the very pillars of democracy—those who seek to live free, standing tall as citizens rather than bowing as slaves, must resist. We must harness every artistic expression across all mediums to oppose this attack on individual freedoms and collective rights.

As the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre advised, whether one is an essayist, pamphleteer, satirist, or novelist, whether one speaks of personal struggles or critiques the social order, the writer—a free person addressing other free people—has only one subject: freedom.

We must protect this shared space of liberty before the Leviathan rips apart the social contract we forged upon leaving Hobbes’ "State of Nature," where life was once solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.