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 The optimal response of [[UAT]] is ''acquiescence''. Ideally, indentured servants mutely accept the technology, ploughing meekly onward in an anaesthetised haze, the way cattle eventually accept branding or Winston Smith comes to love Big Brother.
-There is a reason it is not called “[[user enjoyment]]”, or “[[user appreciation]]”, or “[[user validation]]”. ''It is not about the ''[[user]]''.
+There is a reason it is not called “[[user enjoyment]]”, or “[[user appreciation]]”, or “[[user validation]]”.
+''It is not about the ''[[user]]''.
 “Acceptance” implies ''tolerance'', not ''enjoyment''. Forbearance. Sufferance. Coming to terms with a generally unsatisfactory circumstance that, having played your cards, is the best you can reasonably now expect. Sacrificing individual freedom and preference for a “greater good”. When one says “I have accepted my fate” one does not necessarily mean one is ''happy'' about it. Socrates accepted his fate. Jack did, in ''Titanic'', when he let Rose have the wooden pallet to lie on. So it is with [[user acceptance testing]].