Blog #14

I agree with Sante that all three of these reasons contribute to the loss of secrecy. The breakdown of the KGB and the releasing of documents was by definition a major loss of secrecy, as the KGB was a secret police force. However, in this case I don't think the loss of these secrets is a bad thing. Sure, people need to know that there are things left to discover, but I'm sure many Russian families want to know the real fate of Dmitri after he insulted the Communist Party. Not all secrets should be kept. The internet, on the other hand, causes an extreme loss of secrecy. Nowadays, people will pour their entire life stories onto the internet for others to read for entertainment purposes. Some content posted on the internet shouldn't have been, and unlike other forms of media, once something is on the internet, it's probably going to be there forever, in one for or another. The culture has contributed to the breakdown of secrecy by encouraging people to reveal their secrets to everyone, and is somewhat tied in with the internet.