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i am bewildered about your apparent assumption that political officials have the expertise adquate to allow them to blow off review processes, ignore their own experts, etc, in the formulation of policy.
i am bewildered by your mode of argumentation, which seems only about superficial factoids buttressed by a faith in corporate actors operating within very specific types of bounded rationalities to be able to step outside that rationality and fashion policy that is somehow not predictated on corporate interest to the exclusion of all others.
i am bewildered by your apparent hostility to environmenal groups, which in the main function to raise political concerns that have to do with what is excluded from corporate internal thinking and imaging of their own performance and the impacts these exclusions have on stakeholders. in this, i am not making any argument that one side is entirely right and one entirely wrong--i just don't get the basis for your dismissal of environmental groups a priori.
i don't really understand anything about where you are coming from politically--you seem unconcerned with democratic process altogether, animated by some quaint faith in the ability of corporate entities to transcend their organizational limitations and act in the best interest of--well who?--themselves, really.
when you are not bothered by the way in which bush/cheney formulated their energy policy and someone reading your posts ask themselves "why is this?" the conclusion is that you don't care about procedural transparency. when you say "i don' care about process, i care about results" it simply reinforces this. it doesn't matter whether you said it or not--the logic is in place throughout what you did say,
the end justifies the means, a disregard for process, a contempt for democratic procedures--all these are typically stalinist. again, it is of no consequence to me whether you like it or not.
and you conflate political ideology with a consumer choice. that one i have so little nice to say about that i'm not going to waste the energy to go beyond this period.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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