Midwest Chick's Place

 From Not the Bee:

Britain has a government program called “Prevent” that was founded in 2019 to research what causes a Muslim to become a terrorist.

[Hint: It’s reading the Quran]

As part of this department, there’s something called the “Research Information and Communications Unit,” or RICU, that looks into materials that cause people to become radicalized. The entire program is based off a WWII propaganda ministry that might be considered a blend between Orwell’s Ministry of Truth and CS Lewis’ National Institute for Coordinated Experiments (NICE).

From author Douglas Murray:

 But then I read on and saw that these same taxpayer-funded fools provide lists of other books shared by people who have sympathies with the ‘far-right and Brexit’. Key signs that people have fallen into this abyss include watching the Kenneth Clark TV series Civilisation, The Thick of It and Great British Railway Journeys. I need to stress again that I am not making this up. This has all been done on your dime and mine in order to stop ‘extremism’ in these islands.

… Elsewhere RICU warns that radicalisation could occur from books by authors including C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Aldous Huxley and Joseph Conrad. I kid you not, though it seems that all satire is dead, but the list of suspect books also includes 1984 by George Orwell.

 I got introduced to CS Lewis in fourth grade and graduated to Tolkien soon thereafter.  Then Bradbury and Orwell (which were required reading in my high school classes).  I read Locke in college, along with other philosophers.

 So I guess you could say I’ve been radicalized as a free thinker who believes in good and evil and wants to stand on the side of right.  I guess that makes me dangerous, at least as far as the British government (and probably the US government as well) believes.