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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!144.212.100.12!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!eecs-usenet-02.mit.edu!ai-lab!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms - collecting a list? Date: 03 Jul 1997 11:05:12 -0400 Organization: Free Software Foundation Lines: 24 Message-ID: <sq47mf8uqfr.fsf@psilocin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <5pcb1e$276@news0-alterdial.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: psilocin.gnu.ai.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.0 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3638 comp.unix.shell:46750 comp.os.linux.x:65638 alt.os.linux:22841 gnu.misc.discuss:32132 comp.unix.solaris:111549 mail25193@pop.net (Fred Trottelhauer) writes: - The words are political codephrases which are used by adherents of a mindset - here in the US which can conveniently be called the "Connected" which seeks - to encourage orthodoxy, conformity, willing acceptance of authority, - particularly of the sociopolitical kind (but starting with a reglorification - of fatherhood - the paternal moment on a personal level), and of established - worldly power dynamics. At the highest levels, it serves the interest of - those elements of the American (and supranational) national security and - governmental complex who seek at best to create a docile and thus allegedly - productive workforce which will permit the continuation of America's - desparate participation in the national figment of the "world market economy" - (an overblown wraith on the one hand promoted by American profiteers but on - the other the cause of so much concern for American leaders and suffering for - American workers - it is farcical to see the American giant panting - breathlessly to keep up in the footrace against "the competition" who - mystifyingly seem to be continually more nimble, and untiring), but more - generally are simply interested in silencing internal dissent and keeping the - people "under Control" for its own sake. Do you see these things often? -- "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come." --Nietzsche