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digitaldiscipline
digitaldisciplineDuring times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
The WikiLeaks thing is obviously not a clear-cut situation from any angle. There are items that put people's lives at risk, for instance, and publishing that info is, for lack of a better phrase, just not cool.
NPR's All Things Considered had Amy from "Ask Amy" on last Friday for a slightly facetious presentation of the US' situation of looking like a douchebag, and the social advice boiled down to "If you don't have anything nice to day, don't say it... or at least don't write it down."
Honestly, I don't think anything in the inter-personal opinions expressed comes as a great fucking surprise to anyone. "People are worried about Iran being douchebags with a nuke; in other news, sun rises in east; water wet." Rampant corruption among middle eastern government officials falls under the same category.
Sure, some of the catty remarks leave a little egg on people's faces, but the flip side of that coin is that, you know, if someone repeatedly gets called a dipshit, maybe it's because they're a dipshit.
I think that Assange's arrest smells as fishy as last week's sushi, and that if the US Government had put half as much focused attention into capturing, say, Osama Bin Laden, we probably could have avoided Dubya's wars of choice... which is a large part of the reason the US looks like assholes in all these cables that everyone's so het up over.
- George Orwell
The WikiLeaks thing is obviously not a clear-cut situation from any angle. There are items that put people's lives at risk, for instance, and publishing that info is, for lack of a better phrase, just not cool.
NPR's All Things Considered had Amy from "Ask Amy" on last Friday for a slightly facetious presentation of the US' situation of looking like a douchebag, and the social advice boiled down to "If you don't have anything nice to day, don't say it... or at least don't write it down."
Honestly, I don't think anything in the inter-personal opinions expressed comes as a great fucking surprise to anyone. "People are worried about Iran being douchebags with a nuke; in other news, sun rises in east; water wet." Rampant corruption among middle eastern government officials falls under the same category.
Sure, some of the catty remarks leave a little egg on people's faces, but the flip side of that coin is that, you know, if someone repeatedly gets called a dipshit, maybe it's because they're a dipshit.
I think that Assange's arrest smells as fishy as last week's sushi, and that if the US Government had put half as much focused attention into capturing, say, Osama Bin Laden, we probably could have avoided Dubya's wars of choice... which is a large part of the reason the US looks like assholes in all these cables that everyone's so het up over.
