[ExI] 1984 and Orwell's Warnings

[Olga Bourlin]

From: "BillK" <pharos at gmail.com>
To: <rafal at smigrodzki.org>; "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:04 AM

> And historical photos are edited to remove people no longer approved of by 
> the present masters. And history books are rewritten so that a generation 
> grow up not knowing the truth about what previous generations did.

That is censorship - going with CE or BCE would not be.  I personally am a 
First Amendment absolutist, and want it taught in the history books that 
Thomas Jefferson (and many of the so-called Founding Fathers) owned lots of 
slaves.  And stuff like that.  I think history is so much more alive when 
the truth is revealed.

> The masters try to create a younger generation of followers who ignore (or 
> do not even know about) history. I suppose that is why cycles occur of the 
> same mistakes being repeated.

"The masters? ...? Er ... I wish we had "E Pluribus Unum" back as the U.S. 
national motto, myself ... rather than the present "In God We Trust" ... 
[excerpt -  "A law was passed by the 84th United States Congress (P.L. 
84-140) and approved by the President on July 30, 1956. President Dwight D. 
Eisenhower approved a joint resolution declaring In God We Trust the 
national motto of the United States.[1] The same Congress had required, in 
the previous year, that the words appear on all currency, as a Cold War 
measure: "In these days when imperialistic and materialistic Communism seeks 
to attack and destroy freedom, it is proper" to "remind all of us of this 
self-evident truth" that "as long as this country trusts in God, it will 
prevail."]:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust

So there.

Olga