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I still don't share your (and apparently melo's) view that it is just about different narratives.

I'm not sure I am not a technocrat -- not with rail; and I think even building & maintaining a decentralised energy production structure would need elements that can be called technocratic -- say grid planning, balancing (energy storage) network, boosting production and technology export.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Fri Jul 27th, 2007 at 05:32:40 AM EST
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No, you actually are willing to discuss the cost/benefit analysis.

Most of the most vociferous opposition to nuclear isn't.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jul 27th, 2007 at 05:33:50 AM EST
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i did imply that, but on further thought, there are many different narratives clouding the fundamental issue, each with agenda, more or less worn on political sleeve.

the simple issue being how to provide as much power as cleanly as possible to as many people, cleaning up our ancestors mistakes, and busting people who pretend to be logical and dispassionate, but are really indulging in intransigence, for the ego-thrilling sake of it.

it's interesting how the tone (polemic, superior) reveals almost always more than the melody ( the wake of the mind's tacks), except in certain poignant occasions, to wrap it in a musical metaphor.

i think of a gorgeous strain, hissing and crackling through a rusty, semi-shorted reciever, and still breaking your heart.

some melodies can do that, beat even shitty tone....exception that proves the rule!

when it comes down to trusting my eyes or my ears, i always trust the latter, it connects more deeply.

can you 'hear' tone in the posts here at ET?

i sure can...life's too short to waste reacting to bristly pedants.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Jul 27th, 2007 at 07:26:12 AM EST
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