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* [[political correctness]]. Post-traumatic stress disorder is the eventual term for what was originally known as shell shock, and it turns out to be much easier for companies to market pharmaceuticals to. If it is a "disorder" it is medical and should be paid by medical insurance. If it is "shock" resulting from "shells" then it is obviously a military thus public problem to deal with. | * [[political correctness]]. Post-traumatic stress disorder is the eventual term for what was originally known as shell shock, and it turns out to be much easier for companies to market pharmaceuticals to. If it is a "disorder" it is medical and should be paid by medical insurance. If it is "shock" resulting from "shells" then it is obviously a military thus public problem to deal with. | ||
* [[Microsoft]]'s [http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/Articles/GNU.mspx referring] to a so-called "degradation of the software ecosystem", hijacking [[ecological metaphor]]s and redefining them to favor itself, | * [[Microsoft]]'s [http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/Articles/GNU.mspx referring] to a so-called "degradation of the software ecosystem", hijacking [[ecological metaphor]]s and redefining them to favor itself, seems to have prompted some [[free software]] activists to build a [http://gnumes.nornia.org/ mythological response] with such elements as "GNUmes", "vampires" and "the [[flora]] and [[fauna]] of the [[noosphere]]". Overall, this use of [[conceptual metaphor]] is quite offensive to these who see an [[ecosystem]], up to and including the Earth itself, as a life-sustaining mechanism deserving of every protection physically possible, and worth risking death to protect. ''See [http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Software_ecosystem&oldid=9789 en: Disinfopedia: software ecosystem] and [[Avoid extending metaphor]] for more on this.'' | ||
* [[Newspeak]]. "we shall make [[thoughtcrime]] literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it." Most obviously, when [[Wikimedia]] censors any debate on whether a [[sysop]] can actually be a [[vandal]] using slightly different arguments and tools, the debate on [[sysop vandalism]] is quashed and deleted, rather than being moved to the [[w:Wikipedia:]] policy space for debate. This proves the intent of [[Wikimedia]] to simply silence questions about the objectivity of its [[sysop power structure]]. In their view the terms "sysop" and "vandal" are exclusive opposites. Thus only the [[Sysop Vandal point of view]] can ever be expressed. | * [[Newspeak]]. "we shall make [[thoughtcrime]] literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it." Most obviously, when [[Wikimedia]] censors any debate on whether a [[sysop]] can actually be a [[vandal]] using slightly different arguments and tools, the debate on [[sysop vandalism]] is quashed and deleted, rather than being moved to the [[w:Wikipedia:]] policy space for debate. This proves the intent of [[Wikimedia]] to simply silence questions about the objectivity of its [[sysop power structure]]. In their view the terms "sysop" and "vandal" are exclusive opposites. Thus only the [[Sysop Vandal point of view]] can ever be expressed. | ||