Word: self-interest
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Duany and Plater-Zyberk are not anti-development. Indeed, businesspeople seem to like them and their notions of enlightened self-interest. Joseph Alfandre, the man behind Kentlands and Belmont, had been a very successful developer of rather routine suburban pods around Washington. In 1988 he was considering land-use plans for the 352-acre Kentlands site. Then he heard about Duany and Plater-Zyberk, became a convert, canceled his plans and started over...
...themes of most Western art and are especially good on the ideology of "enlightenment" that supported and sugared the cruel facts of European conquest and expansion. Solid thought and research lie behind them, and though the conservative would complain that we know the story of Manifest Destiny's barbarous self-interest, the point is that until this show, we did not know (or certainly not in such detail) about its ramifications in painting and sculpture...
Over the years this principle of self-interest was inflected by an idealistic impulse: America as leader and light of the world. We associate this with the crusading spirit of the World Wars and the cold war, but it too goes further back. The Spanish-American War began not only to remember the Maine but to cleanse Cuba of Spanish concentration camps. Earlier still, there were Americans who wanted to aid Hungarian rebels against the Habsburgs or Greek rebels against the Ottomans...
Once he erased it, all the strands of our foreign policies knotted together. Self-interest rose to the defense of our oil supply. Saddam's treatment of Kuwait and his casual lobbing of Scuds into Israel stirred Bush to outrage. Our diplomats had rounded up a sheaf of United Nations resolutions to give Operation Desert Storm a firm foundation of paper...
...logic of self-interest, as it turns out: the sponsors of T.F.A.P. created a plan that promised benefits to rich and poor nations alike if they adopted programs stressing forestry over conservation. By making the forestry department of the U.N.'s Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization principally responsible for administering the overall plan, moreover, the sponsors made it likely that cutting trees would have high priority...