[ExI] 1984 and Orwell's Warnings

[Olga Bourlin]

From: "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin at rawbw.com>

> Even though I am a devout, practicing, orthodox, and
> upstanding atheist, I go ballistic whenever I see
> someone trying to drop "B.C." down the memory-hole
> so that we can replace it with "B.C.E.".  This is the
> totalitarian tendency at work, to not only repudiate
> outworn concepts such as God (which of course I
> agree with) but to DESTROY EVERY LAST
> VESTIGE OF OLDSPEAK, and erase anything
> that might even incidentally remind people of
> "incorrect" thinking.

Really ... you go ballistic?  Because you want to keep "Anno Domini?" And 
you expect people like Jews and Muslims and atheists to like using that 
designation?

I don't understand.

I've noticed some museums have started using BCE and CE to date their 
displays.  I think that's wonderful and modern and inclusive.

So, you think museums in China should use "in the Year of our Lord?"

Some Oldspeak is simply that ... old and irrelevant and oh-so-tribalistic.

Olga