[89541] in Cypherpunks
Re: Taxing Churches for their views? Bad idea. (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Burnes)
Wed Nov 5 23:53:46 1997
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 17:24:09 -0700 (MST)
From: Jim Burnes <jvb@n-o-s-p-a-m.ssds.com>
To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199711052226.XAA21798@basement.replay.com>
Reply-To: Jim Burnes <jvb@n-o-s-p-a-m.ssds.com>
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Anonymous wrote:
> Jim Burnes wrote:
> > The whole of HG Wells warning to society was that by systematically
> > altering the language, you alter the things that can be discussed.
>
Woops. I'm mixing up my ontological icons. Obviously I meant to
say "George Orwell". Probably confused the two because they both
started out being semi-socialists. HG Wells being a member of
the Rhodes Roundtable thought it would promote social justice.
Later he came to the conclusion that they just wanted to control
the world like any power-mad group that knows whats best for us.
Orwell fought in the Spanish civil war for the socialists and
against the fascists.
Later, he worked as a propagandist for the British ministry of truth
during WWII -- eventually seeing his folly and writing 1984.
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