As I am resting in my own confusion at the moment, refusing to be swayed by even the best of writing, waiting for my own view to emerge, fragments of visions appear.
Resting in my own confusion. You see, I have no great position of power so I can freely confess I don’t know what to make of the country of which I am a citizen.
I’ve written a little bit about freedom of information — that accountability is not just catching crooks and putting them in jail, but allowing the citizens of this country to be truly informed. We have become a wierd mix of incredible secrecy in the halls of power, be they government or private business and no privacy allowed for the rest of us.
That can’t be good.
I have no doubt that the Obama Administration will do everything they can to get as much information as they can about what has gone on these past eight years. They really don’t have any choice, after all. Each member of Obama’s cabinet will inherit a big giant awful stinky mess. Consider the EPA, just as the first thing that came to mind. Not only will whoever heads the EPA have to deal with the climate crisis and the effects of all the deregulation that has gone on while corporations have basically set policy for that Department, they will also have to confront criminal acts, at the very least politicization of the Department (a’la the DOJ) and at most … well I shudder to think.
This mix of criminality, corruption and incompetence will be quite a challenge.
My question, though, is whether or not they will share all this information with the rest of us.
I think that’s a very important issue. We can’t make informed decisions as citizens if we are not informed.
