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To: elmatador who wrote (16623)	9/8/2006 3:31:47 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 46821

Elmat stated: "If other industries had progressed following the same rules guided by a bunch of bureaucrats and engineers paid by monopolistic profits, the world would had been in a very bad shape." Me thinks you may be suffering from some form of silo syndrome; myopia, even. Every time that I've made a statement like that one (above) in mixed company - and I never seem to learn from my mistakes in this regard - I've been rebuffed by others whose accounts of their own vertical worlds parallel, and often trump, the conditions that I offered earlier. On this continent, at least, shrewd politicking and consorting with a limited set of peers on the control of saleable merchandise and services was not only an honorable trait (going back to the days of Ben Franklin's Junto, regardless of how Wikipedia couches it), but a staple of how we conduct our daily lives. That larger entities should be chastised and restricted for becoming too successful, hence too powerful, is one of the great paradoxes of an open and free society.