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geopolitics centered on oil is an area in the context of which narcissism deploys by refusing to see intertwining of multiple actors, multiple interests and the production of outcomes that follow as much from the dynamics of their interactions as from any linear causation. i think that if you actually read the thread, loquitor, you'll see that the main line of interpretation has moved away from the title and op, which were done in response to a claim from putin...
for example, you'd have to ignore the extensive jockeing for advantage undertaken by the bush people---cheney in particular at the helm--concerning access to central asian oil. you'd have to ignore the frame-condition, which is the understanding that has been american policy since the carter administration officially that access to oil is a national security matter and as such is a military question as well as a political question. you'd have to ignore reality, in short, and substitute for it a simplified version of it in which nation-states like billiard balls pursue their own movement/interests and knock into each other, producing new billiard ball configurations. this simplified version of the world is maybe aesthetically appealing--it erases problems---and since it's appeal is aesthetic (it cannot be descriptive, it is way to far short of adequate) and since you would impose it, i would think that you can see that it is in this imposition that narcissism operates.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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