On Needing Killing

Tyler Durden camera_lumina at hotmail.com
Sun Apr 11 13:27:52 PDT 2004


Eric Cordian wrote...

"Can I be the list's new Crusty Retired
Engineer now?"

Why, did you retire recently?

-TD



>From: Eric Cordian <emc at artifact.psychedelic.net>
>To: cypherpunks at minder.net
>Subject: Re: On Needing Killing
>Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:58:50 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Justin writes:
>
> > 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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