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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.