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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: unix acronyms - collecting a list?
Date: 03 Jul 1997 11:05:12 -0400
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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