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But the real substance of this entry is not WikiLeaks nor Julian Assange, whose death many predict, targeted at least once by the FBI, according to one report.
My real focus is how this assault on opacity will ultimately influence the polluted earth that holds it up, to her own sorrowful detriment (literally).
What will happen if the transparency promised by our president becomes a reality? Suppose that, instead of white-collar prisons being the extreme penalty for treason at every level from local to worldwide, whistleblowing moves it over? Suppose, since every other recourse has left our realm of possibilities, honesty is forced upon us?
In my opinion, killing Assange or even his entire vanguard is no longer an option. The seed was planted who knows when---Ananias and his wife?--and the outcome is too well rooted.
Think for a moment of the host of premises upon which our lifestyle and mores are based. How many will be overturned? Assumptions are the ground we stand on. Imagine this upending of reality. Will we survive and thrive?
And have we stumbled upon the cure--one most of us considered utterly elusive--the upending of terrorism when WikiLeaks' focus
broadens? Maybe we'll no longer need the full-body scanners. I had even decided the CIA was our best bet, fighting fire with fire, setting up cells where terrorist cells were found.
And beyond that, or parallel with it, will WikiLeaks find a way to level out our top-heavy economy, redistributing the bank accounts of the top one percent so that the wealthiest super power in the world doesn't also end up vying with developing countries for percentage of destitution?
So much of the world's worth is distributed dishonestly.
Can WikiLeaks save the world or at least lead the endeavor? Can our genius be diverted from government wiretapping to wiretapping government?
Stay tuned. Many problems will be solved, many faces turned red in this process, red enough to drop dead as earth crumbles beneath.
Of course, world powers are forgiving each other at this point. They all have agendas that diverge from the pleasantries they exchange in front of tv cameras.
What will happen to politics when everyone in Congress agrees on
something important?
Suddenly I look forward to the future and these most interesting times. Maybe we have more than a Chinese curse on the horizon (that is, the wish that one "may live in interesting times," such times usually translated into fodder for many a writer--in two words, hard times.)
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