Comments: Open Governance - using the 5th Party to protect the asset

Disclosure, Discovery, Access, and Transparency are the keys to an informed franchised public that finds its self interest in the maintenance of a system. To put it simply the users if they are allowed participate in the support will provide eyes and ears that management simply has to listen to. The flaw in most systems is the uneven playing field that attempts to discredit the non-expert typically the users and force feed them the tripe cooked up by the experts. Microsoft is one such system in the operating system world. As if they where kings appointed by God to their position they dictated standards and slowly over time, whatever advantage and power they had, has slipped into oblivion. The US on a geo-politcal scale has suffered from the same problem rather than provide a system of equally vested participates the foreign policy of the US has been over the years drifting into extreme points of view regarding its interest. The underlying premise is based upon “ them versus us” mentality with hostility as the control element in the relationship. The need for hostility to enforce the relationship with the users or beneficiaries in the end kills the desire for the system to be used.

So what we are faced with is a culture and society run by two societies and cultures one simply oppresses the other to achieve its status. The appearance of value being transferred is all the oppressive class has to achieve, something like placing in god we trust on the currency or suggesting in tricky language that the value is really gold when in fact it isn’t/

Posted by JimN. at March 6, 2007 06:54 PM

I don't know how much good the public can do against a government stealing the assets.

"Wherever there's a large corpus of wealth, if at all possible it WILL be plundered." - unknown

Posted by bob at March 7, 2007 10:41 AM
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