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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Technocracy Responds To Disaster... This is what happens when BP spills coffee - Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

This is what happens when BP spills coffee


Technocracy:
"A technocracy is a form of de facto elitism, whereby the "most qualified" and the ruling elite tend to be the same. These elite are selected through bureaucratic processes..." [src]

An Aside, from Dimitry Orlov, Socio-economic commentator:
Refinery - Katja Buchholz-GettyThe Chernobyl disaster was caused more or less directly by political appointeesm: the people in charge of the reactor control room had no background in nuclear reactor operations or nuclear chemistry, having got their jobs through the Communist Party. They attempted a dangerous experiment, executed it incompetently, and the result was an explosion and a meltdown. The Deepwater Horizon disaster will perhaps be found to have similar causes.

BP, the owner of Deepwater Horizon, is chaired by one Carl-Henric Svanberg—a man with no experience in the oil industry. The people who serve on the boards of directors of large companies tend to see management as a sort of free-floating skill, unrelated to any specific field or industry, rather similarly to how the Soviet Communist party thought of and tried to use the talents of its cadres.
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Translate "industrial accident" into Russian and back into English, and what you get is "technogenic catastrophe". This term got a lot of use after the Chernobyl disaster. It is rather more descriptive then the rather flaccid English phrase, and it puts the blame where it ultimately comes to rest in any case: with the technology, and the technologists and politicians who push it."
[source, An American Chernobyl, Dimitry Orlov, May 06 2010]

This is what happens when BP spills oil in the Gulf of Mexico
(and elsewhere, like Nigeria, and other places you never hear about):

Burning Rig 1

Burning Rig Closeup

Exhausted Pelican - Gulf of Mexico

Oil-Fouled Water Bird - Gulf Coast


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