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  • From: "B Holroyd" <beeholroyd AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker
  • Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:06:58 -0400

Why yes, I did know that, vaguely; he still quotes Lord Acton, and
Voltaire, and Paine, and a bunch of other revolutionaries. I quote him
-- it's more fun that way.

On 9/20/06, burnett AT pobox.com <burnett AT pobox.com> wrote:
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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