No matter if it is an iNews site, iRule column or iWrite piece of software, I wonder if we are not going over the line. Maybe we could just sit down and ask ourselves if we make our own decisions or if our environment drives our thinking process. This is one of the funniest contradictions of modern society. Throughout the centuries, human beings have fought for the end of one-man rule and slavery, as well as all other forms of control. The basic idea behind such a battle has been for people to gain their freedom from external domination over their lives, choices, opinions, etc.
Intellectual freedom is unquestionably a part of what our ancestors wanted.
Mind control is to intellectual autonomy as cancer is to human health. It is a safe assertion to think that North American and European people enjoy large degrees of freedom, maybe to a superior level than other parts of the world. Despite or because of this, we then submit to mind control more than anybody else. Trends and fashion command minds better than other methods do, mostly because they are informal. Many Mac companies or industry folks may have the impression that naming their work after the iMac's naming scheme is a guarantee of success.