“How The World Is Really Run”

David Rothkopf is impatient with the exaggerated reactions of shock:

The dark shadowy world of diplomacy and international intrigue is working just about precisely as you suspect it is.[…] The WikiLeaks cables shine light on dark corners of international affairs only to reveal that for the most part, what is going on is what we thought was going on.

We’re witnessing a sort of Facebook-ification of diplomacy. Remember how we were first shocked when we saw drunk pictures of very respectable people, only to later get used to it, realize they’re people too and find it cute that we used to be shocked? Maybe Wikileaks did a service to those involved after all.