Re: On Needing Killing

Eric Cordian wrote... "Can I be the list's new Crusty Retired Engineer now?" Why, did you retire recently? -TD

From: Eric Cordian To: cypherpunks@minder.net Subject: Re: On Needing Killing Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:58:50 -0700 (PDT)

Justin writes:

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With all due respect to the principle of freedom of speech and all that, I think that cypherpunks, and people in general, give far too little respect to words, as if words are a vague, unimportant, and remote link in the chain of causation of acts or failure-to-acts. I don't see anything wrong with Orwell's view that words control the future's view of history. His certainly have.

Words depend greatly on context. The meaning of words here on the Cypherpunks list, is different than their meaning in the New York Times.

If someone said "up the chimneys with the inner-city welfare mutants" in the New York Times, there would be mass rioting in the streets.

I find this with a lot of my stuff that gets taken from this list and posted in places that I would have written it much differently for, had those places been its original destination.

So - what happened to Tim? Can I be the list's new Crusty Retired Engineer now?

-- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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