Now that we have successfully democratized secret communications between great and small powers, and their intelligence services, it is time to apply what we have learned to you and me.
The technology exists – we don’t have to rely on telepathy. It is time we are liberated from the oppressive tyranny and antiquated bourgeois snobbery of confidential communications. Henceforth, there will be no alternative to total honesty in written and electronic government and business dealings, and in the messages between men and women. Even the minutest departure will immediately be exposed by WikiLeaks. Only thinking and dreaming will remain in the private sphere – for the time being.
Think how liberating this will be! In business, the energy now wasted on industrial espionage will be devoted to innovation. Bureaucrats now assigned to regulation – when all cards are on the table what is there to regulate? – will now devote themselves to devising infrastructure – schools and sanitation – for aboriginal reserves.
In personal life, divorce lawyers will be able to give much-needed legal aid to immigrants. Adulterers will naturally use their Blackberries for tender intra-marital love messages only.
Probitas Omnia Vincit
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Postings in the next three days will be devoted to a new novel, The Weimar Triangle, by Eric Koch, which will be launched on Saturday, December 4. The author will review the book on Friday.
Eric Koch’s book, The Weimar Triangle, is available at Indigo-Chapters and in your local bookstore. 
Aboriginals will no longer be kept on reserves, or keep themselves on reserves — when there are no secrets, no one is dominant.
I am really not so sure the WIKILEAKS is a good thing. Sometimes negotiations with foreign states are important steps toward solving problems. I would be very interested in other knowledgeable peoples’ opinions.
States will never abandon control over information. And despite the occasional Wikileaks breach, those sent abroad to lie for their country will continue to do that. But now they’ll use encryption and, presumably, retain only encrypted copies.
In the 1940s in my grandmother’s house in a Birmingham industrial-revolution slum, over the fireplace, where a large copper kettle was always simmering on the hob, among the other knickknacks was a brass envelope with a hand covering the seal. When I was very young I asked what it meant. The answer: Mind Your Own Business!
Keeping secrets is like peeling an onion: every time a confidence is exposed, the communication is driven farther underground. Serious negotiations require confidentiality; serious negotiators will use secure codes to transact business in confidence — at least until the deal is hatched. Afterwards, who knows what one will have to deny or brazen out.
What puzzles me is why “outing” is so attractive. Only the fundamental hypocrisy of humans can explain it. The compulsion to expose secrets is as mindless as the compulsion to eliminate censorship. In both cases, ethical exercise of judgment is the only adequate way to draw the necessary line. Unfortunately, both ethics and judgment are always in short supply.
“He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone….”