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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news1.mpcs.com!hammer.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!not-for-mail From: mail25193@pop.net (Fred Trottelhauer) 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: 2 Jul 1997 01:31:26 GMT Lines: 60 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5pcb1e$276@news0-alterdial.uu.net> Reply-To: mail25193@pop.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 1cust30.max13.new-york.ny.ms.uu.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3625 comp.unix.shell:46684 comp.os.linux.x:65465 alt.os.linux:22803 gnu.misc.discuss:32092 comp.unix.solaris:111330 In article <33B7A99C.15FB@sci.kun.nl>, sxmboer@sci.kun.nl (Steef) writes: >> >> Fred >> >> >> When I hear the words 'Connected', 'Trust' and 'Under Control', >> I reach for my revolver. >> >Typical.....from New-York I presume, Fred? > >Steef State, not City. Don't hold your breath that the two are equivalent. 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. It is a protofascism very similar to the kind that was used to give birth to Nazism in Germany. I see hints of it infiltrating (and it is consciously infiltrated into societies to subvert them to its ends, and is called a "virus" by its adherents) European societies, notably in Britain, where Thatcher I suspect originated some of its key tenets, in Germany, where it suits a certain inclination to doglike good behavior (a failing in the otherwise estimable German national character), and in other places, but my sources of information are the American press (poor at best) the international press (sparse) and usenet (variable...). One would expect that since the European populations are more educated and have far stronger and older cultural background, it would not make much headway, but you never know. How is the situation in Holland ? The quote, in case you didn't recognize it, is from Goering (the head of the German Luftwaffe), who said "when I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my revolver". I found it amusing to humbly attempt to turn a quote from this prototypical fat conservative loudmouth against his ilk. Cheers, Fred When I hear the words 'Connected', 'Trust' and 'Under Control', I reach for my revolver. If UNIX is the revenge of the nerds, the rest of the industry is the football team and the cheerleading squad trying to produce a science project, and expecting an 'A' because they're the football team and the cheerleading squad.