Progressive Values Stories: Drew & Carol on Openness versus Secrecy

Edwin:  How did you develop that sense of caring?

Answer:  I know that I didn't really know what I wanted to become when I grew up when I was a little girl.  But I did know that I wanted to have a family.  I felt the motherly, maternal instinct.  And I think that carries throughout your job, and also any work you do in the community.

More  Resources about Openness and Transparency

 Definition:

- affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed.
- characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); not secretive ....
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/openness
http://www.wordreference.com/definition/openness

Transparency
Transparency, as used in the humanities, implies openness, communication, and accountability. It is a metaphorical extension of the meaning used in the physical sciences: a "transparent" object is one that can be seen through.

Transparency is introduced as a means of holding public officials accountable and fighting corruption. When government meetings are open to the press and the public, when budgets and financial statements may be reviewed by anyone, when laws, rules and decisions are open to discussion, they are seen as transparent and there is less opportunity for the authorities to abuse the system in their own interest.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_(humanities)

Open Society
In open societies, government is responsive and tolerant, and political mechanisms are transparent and flexible.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_society

Open Government
Open government is the political doctrine which holds that the business of government and state administration should be opened at all levels to effective public scrutiny and oversight. In its broadest construction it opposes reason of state and national security considerations, which have tended to legitimize extensive state secrecy....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_government

Some Questions To Ponder:
 -  What are your thoughts about openness, transparency and secrecy?
 -  Do you have a personal story or anecdote of how you learned some insight into these values?
 -  How has the conservative value of secrecy failed?
 -  How have conservative values in general failed?
 

More Progressive Values Stories at:
http://progressivespirit.com/InterviewStories/ProgressiveValuesStories.htm

Edwin Rutsch
What Are Progressive Values? Documentary Project
http://ProgressiveSpirit.com
and Study Group
http://www.dfalink.com/group.php?id=2285
 

Cross Posted To:
http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/24742

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