[steve-b]

And, speaking of business, even the heirs of those Big Businessmen C D Kemp wrote about feel obliged to join the ranks of the civilizational self-loathers. I notice that in its commercials the oil company BP – that's to say, British Petroleum – now says that BP stands for "Beyond Petroleum": the ads are all about how it's developing environmentally-friendly ways to conserve energy; in other words, it’s ashamed of the business it's in.

What an idiotic statement. The author claims to be a friend of Western values, and yet he sneers at one of its most fundamental traits (technological progress) of Western Civilization.

[NeoCaveman]

He's dead on about BP's self flagellating commercials.

That's one of the reasons I drive past the BP station. If they are ashamed of their #1 prodcut, then I'm not buying it from them either.

[FightThePower!]

You have got to be kidding? Those BP adds have a bunch of morons on the street talking about what the next generation of energy needs to be? I don't know what your business is, but mine is energy. Why don't they do moron on the street ads for how to do brain surgery?

[gogeo]

What an idiotic statement.

His statement, or yours?