IJMC - man pshift

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PSHIFT(1)       USER COMMANDS   PSHIFT(1)

NAME
        pshift - paradigm shift utility

SYNOPSIS
        pshift [-zzeitgeist] [-rragelev] [-v] [-c] [-wn] [+|-n]

DESCRIPTION
        The pshift operator performs a paradigm shift on its input stream
        within the context of the current or specified zeitgeist.

OPTIONS
        -z      Specify the zeitgeist context.  May be specified here
                or from the environment variable $ZEITGEIST.

                Supported values of zeitgeist are judeo_christian
                (default), postcommunist, new_age, and
                when_god_was_a_woman.

        -r      Specify rage level. Acceptable values of ragelev are
                ennui (default), deep_seated, and consuming.

        -v      Set to verbose mode.  Normally pshift operates silently;
                in verbose mode it publishes a 500+ page bestseller
                entitled "Rethinking [input stream] in the [zeitgeist]
                Age", and then begins soliciting honoraria until the
                operator types ctrl-c.  On some systems it runs for
                Congress.

        -c      Set to collective IO.  Normally pshift takes its input
                from stdin and outputs to stdout;  in collective mode it
                takes its input from the Collective Unconscious and
                writes to the Body Politic.

        -wn     Specify first, second, third or fourth wave.  Acceptable
                values for n are 0,1,2 or 3, with 2 (third wave) being the
                default.

                [On Sun systems, the logical waves are 0,3,2,1, which map
                to physical waves 0,1,2,3; see Sun Technical Manual for
                details.]

        +|-n    Specifies the number of times to prepend 'post' to the
                zeitgeist context, if positive, or 'pre' if negative.
                The default is 11.

EXAMPLES

                source $DEITY | pshift -zpostcommunist -rdeep_seated -v +1

        On most systems, the above command will output a hardcover volume
        called "Rethinking God in the Post-Postcommunist Era", in which
        the irrelevence of erstwhile religious concepts is seen to have
        triggered a global, deep-seated rage vis-a-vis traditional
        sociopolitical norms leading to a premature breakdown of emerging
        postsoviet infrastructure.

                pshift -znew_age -rennui

        The above command produces no output, but privately processes a
        vague discontent which it will share if its space is honored.  May
        be redirected to /dev/null.

                pshift -c -w3 -1

        Taking its input from the collective unconscious, the above
        command rejects the failed socioeconomic policies of the last
        thirty years and replaces them with a futurist, fourth wave
        polemic of traditional values, the two-parent family, and the
        supremacy of the  private sector that was the foundation of
        the American utopia of the 1950s.  Use a prepend value of -2
        to restore the American utopia of the early Industrial Age,
        a value of -3 to restore the European utopia of the
        Enlightenment, -4 for catholic hegemony, etc.
        (note:  Requires grass root permission.  In verbose mode, it may
        also require a $4 million advance.)

SEE ALSO
        backlash(1)

BUGS
        You must have root permission to use consuming rage.