this excellent piece by the bbc dissects the impact of wikileaks. to me it shows three things: a. there are good people on every side, b. technology is enabling lateral power by allowing the world a glimpse into highly secret/elite worlds, and c. it's hard to be the hegemon in a connected world:
this two part analysis is also an instructive primer on geo-politics. the world has clearly become a dirty place - sunshine/openness is the only effective disinfectant. with greater information and connectedness we will graduate to what jeremy rifkin terms "biospheric consciousness" from a selfish "national consciousness".
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