Sure, and we don't live in a totalitarian country, but it's an animating narrative du jour. I don't like a lot of our government, but then, they were freely elected by some very foolish people.
There's a world of difference between totalitarianism and a shared health record. A shared health record is a very good idea in terms of medical practice, medical science, and economics. We can't guarantee that it won't be misused - if fact, you can more-or-less that somewhere at some time it will be, but I'd want to weigh up damage against the benefits. Everything has risks, so ask for good evidence-based risk management. Demanding zero risk is well, kinda narcissistic. Woody did buy the watch, didn't he? Jim On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 at 17:54, Rick Welykochy <r...@vitendo.ca> wrote: > Orwell (Blair) was writing about 1948, but titled his book 1984 to avoid > persecution. > What he wrote about had already come to pass. If the past is fake news, > then the writers > of history have won some sort of war. > > "Fake news" was a mere speck of what Orwell was railing against. Think > Newspeak, > the related double speak, mind control, revisionism, totalitarianism, > mental and physical > enslavement, that sort of thing and I think you'll see a broader picture > of Eastern Europe > at the time. > > > Jim Birch wrote: > > The one thing that that George Orwell was absolutely correct about is > that > > there was a year called 1984. The rest turned out, ironically, to be > > exactly the kind of fake news he was railing against. > > -- > -------------- > Rick Welykochy > > It is a gorgeous gold watch. I'm proud of it. > My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. > -- Woody Allen > > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > Link@mailman.anu.edu.au > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
