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By Mahesh_P_Butani (registered) - website | Posted August 18, 2011 at 17:00:01 in reply to Comment 68065
Thank You Jason for your feedback! As I had said earlier - Kunstler was not the central reference of this article, his words were just a counterpoint to my thoughts.
I read him with professional interest, not as an urban enthusiast -(from where majority of his followers come). I never knew the extent of hero worship going on here - or else I could just as well have used a more obscure reference as a counterpoint.
When you read thing with a professional interest, you tend to be a dispassionate - which prevents you from making absurd linkages to issues. It allows for other points of views to co-exist - and from that only does humanity progress.
This link may push uncritical followers of Kunstler into a denial state, which is good - because this is the only way less bravado and more critical thinking will emerge in Hamilton.
When one point of view is obsessively foisted, very little of anything can be Raised, let alone your own intelligence.
I am sorry if I make you feel stupid - but have you looked into the role you must be playing in feeling that way?
Look at this - your own writing: "...as comfortable as that of the consumption machine." What does it mean? even when not inserted here out of context? Think about it.
I don't subscribe to your notion of "everyday people". I think it is condescending to think about human beings in such terms. This distinction while making you feel superior, also empowers you foolishly to talk down to those you have slapped your criteria on - mostly without their concurrence.
I have many friends from your "category" of everyday people - who have no problems understanding what I write. And when they don't, they search or ask me, and a meaningful conversation starts. It is only here that I see grief like yours. I am sure that you may want to say that everyone here is like you - which you know in your heart, is not the case.
I would love to see an elaborate critical essay on the link I have provided above - on your blog. All Hamiltonians will be thankful to you for your efforts in providing the "other" view to our energy situation. They need to know this to clear the confusion that exists in Hamilton from the dominance of a single view on this.
You do know I have tried to be as delicate as possible here. And I sincerely hope that you stop feeling stupid every time you read something you don't get. It is such a terrible way to live.
Comment edited by Mahesh_P_Butani on 2011-08-18 17:24:43
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