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  • From: burnett AT pobox.com
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker
  • Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:56:53 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, B Holroyd wrote:

A-hem. Surely you know that the reference is to George Orwell's
distopia, so well described in the book _Ninteen Eighty-four_ that the
term "Orwellian" has come to describe the state of affairs that
results from the use of technology by the powerful to oppress the rest
of us. Of course, Eric Arthur Blair (Orwell's real name) also paid
homage to the age-old understanding that power corrupts. (My dad
always adds... "and absolute power corrupts absolutely.") If you

Surely you know that your father was quoting Lord Acton, from an 1887 letter.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/288200.html




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