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<p>Well, I wouldn’t exactly call vicissitudes an ally of Eudean. </p>
<p>But more to the point, I am proposing a bunch of ideas that I believe could improve Berkeley. Now, I am not saying that ALL of my ideas are the best ones. In fact, I freely agree that there may be even better ideas out there. All I am offering is a menu of POSSIBLE reforms. We can debate which reforms are better than others, and how to go about implementing reform, but I still believe that reform is necessary.</p>
<p>Personally, I think the ball is in the court of my opposition. I have spend time delineating various reforms. I think my opposition ought to counter with some reforms of their own. If they can come up with even better ideas, then I will acknowledge (as I have in the past) that they have better ideas. </p>
<p>But then there are people who quite simply DON’T WANT problems to be fixed. For example, eudean himself has said that he LIKES impaction. I take that to mean that even if we could fix impaction, he WOULD NOT WANT it to be fixed. He likes it this way. Hence, all this discussion of how reform isn’t possible or how my reforms won’t help are therefore completely beside the point, because he (and people like him) don’t want reform anyway. </p>
<p>I consider that a highly provocative position to take and wonder why impaction is to be preferred.</p>