Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 14:20:21 -0600 From: ML Duke <mlduke@concentric.net> To: fewtch@serv.net Cc: simon mendoza <simon_v_mendoza@yahoo.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, Rick Hamell <hcg@teleport.com> Subject: Re: How important is "the OS?" Message-ID: <35940285.4C7C@concentric.net> References: <XFMail.980626090857.fewtch@serv.net>
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> > 1) have you all read Victor Orwell's "1994"? Its neccessary to interject on this one. From what I've seen, 90% of the people on this list know more BSD than I do, but awareness is sure lacking elsewhere which I guess is normal. It was "1984" and it was "George" Orwell, but those are unimportant errors. The serious error is to think our current society is not related to Orwell's "fictional" one. But Orwell's "double speak" has been renamed: Its called "political correctness." We are living in it. _Now_. The news is heavily censored, biased and full of downright deliberate disinformation. Anyone who believes the news (major media) is living in la la land. A lawyer at the time recently moved from Moscow to Anchorage once told me our system was far more "perfect" than Russia's from the government point of view. In Russia, she said, the media lies and everyone knows its a lie and so ignore it. Here, she said, the media lies better and nobody seems to know it. Communism did not die. Quite the opposite it has arrived. We have current political by the hundreds and perhaps thousands. The federal government has been jailing and murdering people for years now. Now local police forces have joined them, and all across the nation people are deprived of both freedom and property in the complete absence of due process. The Constitution ceased to be the law of the land long ago. Now its nothing more than routinely required lip service. This post could be a book, and I'm probably wasting my time, so I'll quit. Anyone interested can read the EO's (Executive Orders). A contrary answer in the absence of reading _at least_ that much will be a waste of more time. ML Duke > I read it a long time ago (BTW, I believe it was called '1984' - so what's one > decade anyway ;-) Terrifying book. Thankfully, we're nowhere near that state > - in fact, the breakdown of 'communism' in the early 90's practically > guaranteed us another 30-50 years of avoiding anything resembling the society in > the book '1984.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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