By: Steve Gray

Steve Gray
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 15:51:53 +0000

I don’t want there to be some government body blasting out door-closing fines to transgressors and I’m required to give them a thumbs up. I don’t want the government to be involved, full stop. You have an essay, a thesis, a theory ? Present it !

You’ve got some amazing, ground-breaking insights that will change everything ? How dare you keep us in ignorance ? If, on the other hand you’re a crank.. ? No harm done, try again.

Universities that are scared of wrong ideas are of no use to the rest of us – as a society, we need the academics to figure things out. To stride into the grey areas and take on the taboos.

We need them to earn their corn, by grappling with the conundrums and struggling with the riddles. Burning the midnight oil, to make sense of it all, for all they’re worth.

The truly effed-up thing about all of this is that if universities accepted their role as ‘thought laboratories’ and did the necce to live up to that and push back against all and any censorship.. But alas, no. Game over for them.