<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 2:04 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>here and now, in the cultural climate of the West, especially in<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>academy and media, thought policing is mainly practiced by atheists<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>against believers.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">Speaking of the Thought Police and George Orwell, it would be entirely appropriate for academics to have a strong bias against an Astronomy professor who believed the universe was created on October 23 4004 BC<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> or a professor of Evolutionary Biology who thought every word of the Noah Ark story was literally true because<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> according to my Newspeak dictionary<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> the best word to describe that sort of behavior is Doublethink. And that is not conducive to competence or even sanity.</font><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span></font></div></div>