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But even if you do not understand the preceding, you probably feel the tension between words conveying force, strength, and menace, such as power users, abort, dump, head crash , and munged , with words suggesting vulnerability, frailty, and humor as a defense against such powerlessness, in words like technoweenie, nerdettes, user-friendly , and DWIM (for do what I mean, a mythological key that would make the computer do what you cannot figure out yourself).
The gags in Office Space aren't anything-goes: They're rooted in what sociology professor Lynn S. Chaucer calls Sadomasochism in Everyday Life: The Dynamics of Power and Powerlessness (the title of her 1992 book).
Nelson's response to powerlessness was architectural: He transformed part of the fusty old family precincts into a sleek "Bauhaus fantasyland" for himself and his brothers.
Next to that story was an editorial titled "American Powerlessness."
It did work for Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry, a self-professed sex addict who rehabilitated himself politically after a drug conviction by declaring his powerlessness over drugs and sex, repenting, and entering a program.