Facts

just a small prediction. the current wikileaks leak, cablegate, will, like every other before it, have no effect in every day life. ambassadors will be identified as a few “rotten apples”, some minor heads will roll, and life will resume its course.

the fantasy remains that humans are driven by facts. my opinion is that they aren’t, and more facts only feed the background noise. sometimes i feel we are being given a matrix-neo-like savior figure (assange), which deviates our focus from core questions. facts are essential, but useless at the current state of things. no law, no religion, no government or company responds solely to facts. they respond to their own inner delusions, biases and habits, therefore, we must engage both the rational and irrational of organizations.

but it serves also as part of the system, like neo was, to create fables of victory around the permanence of ruling class ideology. as heads roll, the world will remain essentially the same.

i am still wondering who is behind wikileaks, and there is some editorial bias in the leaks they put out. search wikileaks for israel, for example. this is not a conspiracy theorist perspective, i favor incompetence in turn of conspiracy, but there is a great risk that our focus shifts from core issues to superficial arguments about how good or bad certain aspects of government are, forgetting that systemic issues will remain unaddressable that way.

i would be interested in industry leaks, since corporations rule the world these days. but i guess corporate control on communications is so tough, any employee would risk a much greater deal by “leaking” anything.