... very scary stuff,... 'transparency'... a word with a prolific profile, enjoying ambivalent prominence eversince the newly elected south african ANC proclaimed the word as an integral part of their structure, policy and goverment... with disastrous effect... oder?
wikileaks has been in the press for weeks internationally and i recently checked out their swiss-based site... to still my curiosity and out of general interest... one day later... i received a mail that the usembassycables now followed me on twitter! Coincidence!? The stuff that conspiracy theory novels are based on...? I have been blogging for about 2 months... basically verbal diarrhea... on food related subjects... feeding my humble aspirations of becoming an author... nothing more or less, no religion, no politics.
what surprises me is the 'mechanism' in place which moniters potential wikileaks support... aborting the clandestine character usually associated with surveilance ... 'transparency'? (wow!)
yes, we do think along other lines here in europe, as i have experienced firsthand since leaving south africa in 1990... how we 'justified' apartheid for decades... how suseptable we were and still are to the power, the influence of the ruling party... ideology is one thing, as is religion... associated with truth, equality, love... it is the basis of human nature to, unfortunately, 'shape' the idea into a subjective truth... almost always to the advantage of the 'one who has the gold... or the gun in the hand...'
my perception of truth and transparency has taken the long way home... to put it mildly. my progress has to be partially allotted to the environment i inhabit now, the apartheid past... but the core of my sense of fairness is based on my inborn, hereditory 'empathy'... my activity as a creative has additionally shaped the way i think, read... and do things... still a long way to go and forever from the buddhist ideals of attaining harmony.
but, anyway... have a great weekend... and remember that life happens on your feet not in your head!
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