Between the vocabulary of technology engineers and the MBA-speak of businesspeople, descriptions of computers tend to border on the Byzantine and deaden the senses.
The anger, the resentment, the bitterness, the desire for recrimination against people you believe have wronged you, they harden the heart and deaden the spirit and lead to self-inflicted wounds.
Hitler and Stalin and the socialist government of Great Britain all have used the opiate of socialized medicine to deaden the pain of lost liberty and lull the people into non-resistance.