Why not? Alcoholics can be weaned off of alcohol. Drug addicts have broken the cycle of addiction. Smokers have totally turned around their health and future by stopping in time. Human beings have an infinite capacity to change when they themselves so choose. We cannot do it for them. I have no illusions that my naming Uniroyal Chemical and corporate successors as "professional liars" has changed any of them.
Speaking of "illusions" does anyone remember the excellent Documentary by Michael Heitman and Bonita Wagler titled "Grand Illusions". If you don't it's because Lanxess Canada pulled the plug on it AFTER it was completed. My understanding is that the documentary was "balanced" in that the two originators had interviewed both community members as well as Chemtura employees. That said again my understanding is that Lanxess didn't like something their own employee had said on camera. My expectation would be that the employee was Jeff Merriman who led the Uniroyal etc. environmental charge for decades before retiring.
Has my condemnation of our corrupt Ministry of Environment changed their behaviour? I don't think so. They are as useless as teats on a bull with occasional exceptions from specific employees. Two days ago I posted here about whether or not Lanxess, the MECP and Woolwich Twn. seriously were interested in real remediation of the Elmira Aquifers. Three days ago I posted a long but only partial list of lies that we the public have been told by our various "authorities" and their professional liars.
Is professional lying an addiction? Should there be a psychiatric designation for it? Some people literally can't speak more than a few sentences without throwing in intentional lies and disinformation. The very best politicians however have their lying under control. They can turn it on and off like a tap. Former mayor Todd Cowan had no such control and he's hardly alone. Self-aggrandizement is a part of the psychopathy of compulsive liars.
It certainly is habit forming. Normal citizens recognize that most politicians lie on occasion. Normal citizens would be shocked at how most politicians rely on it however as when in doubt lie your way out of it. Rarely do citizens applaud lying politicians who later apologize for their economy of truth. Hence there isn't much incentive to confess when it's just easier to repeat the original lie or make up a new one. They are generally difficult to prove one way or the other.
Where does this all get us? Remember possibly President Reagan long ago when discussing arms agreements with Russia suggesting that the "U.S. will trust but verify.". Well it's the same with polluters, their corrupt regulators and politicians from all levels suddenly at the last minute deciding that gosh more needs to be done to either clean up Elmira prior to the 2028 deadline or at least give the impression that that is what they want to do. Their words and promises are wind, verification will be necessary and not verification from tame, lapdog committees appointed by the professional liars themselves.
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