More Knowledge, More Power (SumBlog8)

Internet hackers, they bring up a new idea of having a world that opens up access and transparency in all organizations. It’s an interesting idea, but would it make our world more distrusting of the leaders that make big decisions? Or would it allow people to actually know what’s going on, and choose leaders only on what they have seen them actually do and vote on. Not what they hear on a propaganda ridden campaign. When trying to answer those two questions I really think about how knowledge is power, and how power is really important when it comes to who leads each country. You don’t typically see people with very little power running for president. Mainly because the people who run are backed by bigger organizations- and those are the organizations that hold the power for that particular political party. So really, if people had the knowledge, do you think that they could have more of a choice in who the people of power are?

So let’s look at those questions, and the last one , I will leave for you to answer. So if you could have all the information that leaders in office have, would that be a good thing, or bad thing? Would it make you feel more a part of your government(s)? Or would it only make things harder for the general public to trust the leaders once we fully know how much has been kept from us in the past? I think that it might cause both to happen. I think initially it would be really hard for people to be able to trust their government, because often we look to the past, and if we were to learn how much has been hidden from us in the past, we might be slow to trust those who are giving us new information. However, if we fully invest in ways to publicly show that we are putting in efforts to make our government more transparent, slowly, very slowly, we will begin to understand a new structure, and grow to trust our government again. But I have to say, trust is something that is seriously lacking for a lot of governments right now, and there definitely should be steps in trying to rectify that trust. With that I will leave the last question to you, if people had the knowledge of everything that our political leaders do, do you think that they could and would have more of a choice in who the people of power are?