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Realizing that any member can read my blog is frightening . True I can read everyone's blog too. But still...it's sort of like reading someone's diary. Got to change my thinking from diary to journal. That's good - a journal - will my thinking change over time? Will my journal show that I've progressed? I think it will -time will tell. (I think Time has a big mouth)
Something clicked in my brain yesterday which I like to mention (in my journal). Unfortunately, this doesn't fit into any forum so I'll put it here. It is my thinking that when an individual becomes a public figure (elected to government office) then that person loses all semblance of a private life. I know that sounds rather strange. Yes they can have a private life but when? Here in the US we keep hearing of executive privilage, private papers etc. How can someone who is elected to serve the people have privilages that are not public? It doesn't sound right to me.
In business if you are working for a corporation or company and you develope a new process, formula, design or whatever. That new something doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the company. You're being paid by the company so what you do on company time belongs to the company.
Back to the elected official - since their job is not a 9 to 5 job any writing or other activity is within the Public Domain and belongs to the public. Nixon's or Johnson's tapes didn't belong to them -they were public property. I don't like the idea of the need for the Public Information Act. Anything the government produces is the property of the people -the public. This idea of "national security" appears as misuse of power. There have been many instances where it's been proved to be a hiding place for examples of stupidity.
That's enough "journaling" for today.
