Secrets, security and sanity

  With the latest report in the news concerning a high level meeting disclosing war plans and secrets I am more convinced than ever that there really are no secrets anymore. Then I hear 23 and me filed for bankruptcy and we are being urged to delete our information. If we do not that information may be sold to anyone and used for nefarious purposes or used by insurance companies to "tailor" any policies issued to you or anyone that shares your DNA. Yes, they would hedge their bets with that information. I'm quite skeptical that you deleting that information would in reality make it disappear. Maury or Karamo can "unlock" your phone and recover all the deleted stuff, I'm guessing the insurance companies can do the same. 

  I'm placing the blame on all this lack of secrecy or security, however you want to view that, on the advent of electronics. When we had to write it down, by hand or typewriter, it wasn't accessible by nearly as many folks. Before we started recording our every sound, every motion and every thought, secrets were easier to keep. Can you imagine the constitution getting written if while that process was going on it was being live streamed to the public. " We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." We would still be arguing over that preamble. We would still be arguing about who are "people." 

  Now I'm hearing from those that have been protesting and demanding transparency that this "breach of security" is outrageous. Pete should be fired, impeached, and run out of town on a rail! He told secrets! Remember last week those same people demanding transparency? Yeah, it was the same people. Well that may be but we weren't using electronics to hold meetings this wouldn't have happened. A reporter accidently added to a group chat? Could it be that that reporter gained access by some other means? I haven't heard that proposed but certainly seems possible to me. Or was that information "leaked out" misinformation? Well, now we don't know about that do we? You know you really can't have it both ways, full transparency and full secrecy. 

  The public in general has grown paranoid. That's my thinking. I also think that is a byproduct of the government itself. Consider how many warnings we are given every single day. For me, that seemed to begin back in 1964 when the surgeon general put that warning on cigarettes. We have reached the point were we have warning that when things are hot, they may burn you! The owners manual for your car warns you not to drink the battery acid! Masks and mandates. Vaccines and multiple boosters. Lead paint, asbestos, and PFE's. People are being misgendered, marginalized and discriminated against. SS is going broke, you won't get medical care. And now military secrets are being shared in group chats. There is a portion of the population now afraid of using the "wrong" pronoun when talking to someone. I'm supposed to ask what pronoun they prefer? And to top it all off the climate is changing! That's it, we are all doomed unless we go green. We all need to use electric cars, just not Tesla's, but the Chinese ones are fine. Secrets, security and sanity. It is becoming more apparent to me every day, we are losing all three in this country!