Tuna News: The Hunt for Common Sense

So once again, the dirty laundry of the world - primarily the United States - is leaving to be published on the Internet. I suppose this is being done in the list of "honesty" or "transparency" or "accuracy" or "judge" or what get you. Frankly, I'm just not buying it. It's a dilemma, really, because when you get right down to it, I suppose everybody wants an honorable and open government.

We need to live what's going on. We need to recognise that our elected officials are behaving legally and ethically. We wish to be certain that everyone is next the rules, because we know when that happens the bad guys always suffer and the good guys always win. Or do they? It seems that first you want to serve the all-important question: who are the bad guys? And for that matter, who are the good guys? The result depends on who you ask, what day it is, which way the diplomatic winds are blowing, and who is mad at whom at any specific moment. The bad guy is always the other guy. Half the clock it doesn't count which other guy, just so long as it's somebody other than ourselves. The right guy is often easier to identify. It's us, without a doubt. Sometimes others can unite us if invited, and usually only if we will somehow benefit from a cooperative venture. But here's the problem: if everybody thinks they are the one true good guy and everybody else is a bad guy, doesn't that signify the universe is good of referees who walk down judgments on others.but never on themselves? Somewhere in this conundrum we are absent a critical, yet simplistic element: common sense. Instead of pausing to consider ramifications down the road, we stampede over all the perceived bad guys, trampling on rules and mowing over common sense. We do this in the figure of judge and right - our right - which, being the right guy and all, is the most important right there is. It doesn't count if it affects others negatively. After all, "don't step on me" didn't just have a number of caveats spelled out at the seat of the flag. So now dozens of countries, especially (but not exclusively) The United States are having to explain countless socio-political blunders that weren't meant for publication, like Russia is stuck up, Canada wears mismatched socks, and the current bad-guy Korea behaves like that crazy Uncle you pray won't show up for Sunday Supper. It's release to have a lot of employment to undo these seemingly trivial statements.There are many, many other, far more serious leaks of data as well, and it will take a lot more than a sincere "my bad" and fragrance of flowers. Using a bit of common sense wouldn't necessarily change our form of action, but it implies, at the very least, that we step back and take actions and results from all sides, both prompt and long term. Hiding evidence of serious wrongdoing isn't the answer. But tattling on others like toddlers on the playground isn't the result either. Should we be a worldwide community ready, willing, and capable to bring dirty in place to become our needs and use our freedom? No. I can't say whether these leaks should have been made public or not, but I want the hope to DO right was as secure as the demand to BE right. If only everyone employed just a small common sense, maybe we could sharpen our attention on healing our world-wide community, instead of cleaning up messes everybody else leaves on our global doorstep.