Shellshock

[RICHARD ROMEO]

Skip wrote:  "The term shellshock always reminds me of what I find a 
disturbing trend in 

popular (and especially bureaucratic) terminology away from the casually 

evocative (shellshock), through the descriptive but bland (battle 
fatigue), 

 to the clinically precise but utterly prosaic (post-traumatic stress 

disorder).  Working for the government as I do, I notice a similar trend 
in 

the names of our offices, which tend to grow longer and more minutely 

descriptive of what the office does (leading to the formulation of 
Wolfe's 

First Law of Organizational Decadence -- "The more decadent the 

organization, the longer the names of the organizational units.")."



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like "collateral damage"--well we didn't want to bomb those poor Iraquis 
but.we sure love them Kuwaitis..."friendly fire"-well we didn't want to 
blow up your boy miss but.we sure loved em when he was with us....



Richard Romeo

Decadent Coordinator of Un-Cooperating MisCollections (call me CC Rider)

The Foundation Center-NYC

212-807-2417

rromeo at fdncenter.org