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but the perception your agreeing with and/or correcting presupposes that you can move from a governmental organization to a private corporation seamlessly---i think that is an error. it think that error is politically motivated as well--not necessarily on your part individually, cyn--but ideologically it is of a piece with any number of other conservative memes---the model for government in the political sense is a public and political institution, not a private corporation, not a co-op. if you want to make the argument that the organization of work is *political* then that's different--but going that way would involve questions of the division of intellectual labor, hierarchy, information relay systems and protocols---in which case i'd be arguing for worker councils against the idea that a capitalist-style corporate body is a good model for any kind of equitable social regulation. we can have these arguments, too---the only move that seems to me inadmissable is pretending that these are not problems.
arguing from some perception on your individual part, based presumably on just what you think as pulled from beneath your hat, given the rules of engagement---which are not a problem (to be clear about that)----that therefore transparency is useless is not an argument at all. what you call "transparency" is a simply information stream. it is a top-down information stream as well--so there's no political content to it or around it--your idea of transparency seems to be a live video feed from an auditorium somewhere, maybe a bunch of them, like in the old days of cpan when it was routinely entertaining, showing hours of escalators running or men's room entrances and such--"you" are "in the room" and there's "information" about "what's going on"---so in the shallowest possible sense, you could say that's "transparency" i guess.
but that means what you're really doing is dodging the issue of what transparency could possibly be about. from what i can tell, tossing flyers out the window of an office building that say something about what's going in "is" transparency so far as you're concerned, and if folk who are concerned don't scurry about to pick up that "information" then obviously the problem lay with them.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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