Abolishing the Department of Education: From Fictional Tales to Today's Headlines

Current Time.Welcome to My Weekly UpdateDear subscribers, followers, and random readers, thank you for being here. It has been a hell of a week for me, and seeing you here gives me the strength to keep walking.The Liat Show is a multi-domain story universe unfolding in real time. To receive new posts, join as a free or paid subscriber. Annual and founding members enter the story before the rest of the world understands it.I’m sharing some thoughts today because I need help processing them, so maybe you can help.Last year, a flow of imaginary science-fiction stories came out of my mind without preliminary planning. In their imaginary future reality, schools had gone underground because leaders wanted to keep people ignorant and uneducated so that they would be easy to control. In this reality, tech companies had gained more power than governments and practically ruled the world. They decided what information people could access and what they couldn’t, turning the population into slaves of brainwashing, worshiping them without question.I was proud when two episodes I chose to publish got accepted into fiction publications on Medium. It gave me a boost of energy, and for a minute or two, I could imagine myself as the next J.K. Rowling.Fast-forward to what’s happening in the U.S., especially in the Department of Education, over the last few days. I’m not sure anymore whether what I wrote was fiction.How did abolishing the Department of Education become a real possibility? What the hell happened to the greatest nation and power this world has ever known? Why are foreign billionaires (in plural!) making decisions for 340 million Americans who have lived here for generations?I’m disappointed, afraid, and uneasy. My mind is racing, and I need to organize my thoughts. In the meantime, here are the links to these two stories. I was sure they were fiction set in an imaginary reality, but after reading the news recently, I’m shocked to see they might be our reality in the next year or two.To read the story they talk about, click the links: * Why Every Decision Matters* Where Will Fate Take Us Next?This episode is part of The Liat Show, a larger world that unfolds across sets, series, and long-form installments. I weave together episodes from my life, the histories I study, the food I explore, and the systems that shape our world. Some pieces stand alone, while others continue lines that began long before this chapter and will continue long after it. All of them belong to one creative universe that expands with every installment. Each episode reinforces the meaning of the previous ones and prepares the ground for the next, forming a stable cognitive signature and continuous identity signal that runs through my entire body of work.Please fasten your seatbelts and subscribe. We are taking off.The next chapter is already being written. Those who are here early will remember how it began.Follow me on My Journey to Infinity. What’s coming next is beyond anything you imagined.LiatI weave together episodes from my life with the richness of Israeli and American culture through music, food, the arts, architecture, wellness, entertainment, education, science, technology, entrepreneurship, cybersecurity, supply chain, and more, including the story of the AI era. I write on weekends and evenings and share each episode as it unfolds, almost like a live performance.Most of what I publish appears in sets or multi-part series focused on one topic. Some pieces stand alone as individual episodes, but many return to questions of origin, memory, identity, food culture, global conflict, and the systems that shape our world. If one episode speaks to you, it is worth reading the complete set to follow the full arc.You can also start from the very beginning or explore the complete index here: Index of The Liat Show.My writing carries a stable cognitive signature across topics, formats, and platforms. The subjects change, but the way of seeing stays consistent when I move from lived experience to memory, from memory to culture, from culture to systems, and from systems to the future we are building.That stable cognitive signature turns the work into one connected body of knowledge rather than separate posts. Food, music, architecture, wellness, entertainment, education, science, technology, entrepreneurship, cybersecurity, supply chain, and AI become different entry points into the same larger universe. The center is not one topic. The center is the way I read the world through them.The Liat Show is a multi-domain story universe unfolding in real time. To receive new posts, join as a free or paid subscriber. Annual and founding members enter the story before the rest of the world understands it.This podcast was generated by Notebooklm. Get full access to The Liat Show at liatportal.substack.com/subscribe