From its instinctively cooperative origins in
human nature to the self - initiated perfection of its civilized
enterprises, a civilized society is, in Whitehead's metaphysical scheme, a community of social beings who belong to one another
essentially.
And that's because Big Oil has always had,
essentially, a veto power over what the federal government does, both because of its economic might — I mean, we're talking about the richest business
enterprise in
human history — and all the political muscle that comes from that.