Transparency

Is there anyone who ever took something out of a sailor in the nude’s pocket?

On the other hand, many preach to the choir,
few, however, bang their heads against locked glass doors.

That is exactly when the masses yell: transparency!

Do you want total transparency?

Transparency is an optical characteristic – the opposite of reflectivity.

Transparency equals diaphanousness – we see through it, consequently we see nothing.

Soccer reporters understood that a long time ago.

“…on the left off-side, Meyer was totally transparent.”
In other words: Meyer was not seen on the field.

Transparency is a magic hood, there is no better hiding place!

Where everything is transparent, we will no longer see anything.

So, welcome, transparency fans, in the country of the blind,
where even the one-eyed is no longer king, because there is nothing left to see.

My Friend Harvey Says:

Which sentence on transparency is valid?
If you have nothing to hide, there is nothing you have to fear.
Those who have nothing to hide already lost everything.

A homosexual soccer player is ostracized.
He has to suffer mobbing.
He commits suicide.
Later, it is totally normal for a soccer player to be homosexual.
Now is that good or bad transparency?

In times of RAF, you were considered suspicious
if you used a false name for paying your electricity bills.
Thousands were spied on, one was caught.
Good or bad transparency?

The sensor-supported emergency call system e-call 
will automatically notify the nearest ambulance station if something happens.
Simultaneously, it notifies the insurance company if the driver was speeding.
Good or bad transparency?

Google gets better and better with what I am interested in.
I only get results to fit my need.
All that is new, different, hindering, remains unlisted.
Good or bad transparency?

Politicians will tell everybody openly on the web 
why they decided as they did.
Decisions will be made or not.
Good or bad transparency?

Refined algorithms can predict our behaviour in road traffic with surprising precision. It runs rather smoothly, because the system knows our ways. Both those of today and tomorrow.
Good or bad transparency?

Entertainment movies can react to the taste of the audience in tailor-made fashion and in real-time.

Everyone gets the best possible entertainment individually.
There are no surprises left.
Good or bad transparency?

With the methods of personalized medicine, we know exactly when and why we are going to die. To be sure, we can postpone death by a few years through an individually adapted therapy.


Good or bad transparency?

Let me add that spectacles equipped with full-body scanners would make an effective speed dating possible.
(Elwood P. Dowd).