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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sol.net!spool.mu.edu!newsspool.sol.net!howland.erols.net!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!jobone!dailyplanet.srl.ford.com!eccws1.dearborn.ford.com!news From: Tyler Hall <thall3@NOSPAM..bellsouth.net> 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: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 11:14:56 -0400 Organization: ---//*\\--- Lines: 30 Message-ID: <33BBC1F0.6D7E@NOSPAM.bellsouth.net> References: <5pcb1e$276@news0-alterdial.uu.net> <sq47mf8uqfr.fsf@psilocin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 19.62.2.79 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3649 comp.unix.shell:46821 comp.os.linux.x:65853 alt.os.linux:22905 gnu.misc.discuss:32182 comp.unix.solaris:111828 Miles Bader wrote: > > 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 GEEZ, all that in only TWO, (count 'em) sentences, I need some air! Tyler