Secrecy

In the name of national security and public interest, most nations and individuals have gotten away with a lot of bullshit. We all love the idea of democracy and accountability when it is applied to someone else, but we feel mighty uncomfortable with it when someone holds us to the same standard.

In our day and age, where everything is going digital, the idea of "secret" is fast fading. We will soon reach a time when everything would be open. There would be nothing as a secret, especially not the national security type. Wikileaks will and should spur similar efforts around the globe. Governments and bureaucrats will resist as hard as a few of us ordinary citizens would. But it is an idea with an air of inevitability. After sometime, when we realise that openness is here to stay, we'll hopefully strive to work on the cause of these - the fact that we've not been responsible enough in our jobs, especially in our duties towards fellow men and women.