The problem is not people who think wrong thoughts, since we all think what will, retrospectively, turn out to be wrong thoughts about something or other.
The problem is people who give their implicit endorsement to violence or intolerance in the pursuit of wrong thoughts.
But increasingly it feels as if we are all suspect, all guilty of the wrong thoughts, opinions, words, activities and connections.
That the Inquisition did not often burn men alive for thinking the wrong thoughts does not alter the truth that it burned men alive for thinking the wrong thoughts — that it raised the casual cruelty of previous intolerance to a theatricalized black Mass.
According to Jonides, this is how self-control "cashes out" in the real world: as an ability to direct the spotlight of attention so that our decisions aren't determined by the wrong thoughts.
My (quite probably completely) wrong thoughts on the owl bug: Maggie has easy access to Will's office, gave him a cryptic response about having secrets earlier and has form on spying on the team for Ingram.
