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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
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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