Ain't no mountain high enough

Back in history, the times we now like to qualify as romantic and poetic, it was normal that notable and honourable men (and women) of influence, owners of titles, land and businesses would be the ones to push a nation's prosperity.  In those times it will have been perceived as normal or necessary that the engagement of trade and business would be paired with affairs of state, varying from outright wars to mutually convenient marriages. 

If there is one thing that has influenced the course of history it is the level of information populations (demand to) receive, have access to and consequently to a certain degree will also digest and act upon, whether to serve individual purposes or a perceived wider common good in less or more visible manners.  The disclosures on the US' NSA's Prism programme, triggered by an apparent normal, average person such as Edward Snowden are early indicators that over the 21st century the tide and value of information flows is actually turning in the opposite direction from population to government.  How historic is that ?

This past weekend there was another Bilderberg event and for the first time since the 50's there will be press statements as well as parallel organized popular protest alongside. I regard the Bilderberg meetings as inspiring or even hopefull.  The gatherings do not bear the inherited exclusivity like the mostly royal Serafimorden, nor the lifelong rituals surrounding franchised freemasonry, which is exactly what places the Bilderberg group in a consistently forward looking balance that will maintain it as meaningful and thus secure its existence.

There are leaders and leaders and it makes perfect sense there is a thought and traditional organization that selects invitees to listen to and opinion with, in function of what is happening in the world albeit from a restricted perspective, especially with the Europe and the US in the status they are at, vis-à-vis the rest of the world.  No need to always roundtable hiarchies or to (democratically) explain who, where, what and why.  Just listen and be heard to before each goes back to her/his daily responsabilities.

Politicians, businesses and, in today's world, even private individuals, organized or not, have more instruments at hand to find or challenge common grounds than they can handle.  Maybe one day "bilderberging" will show up in Oxford's dictionary not too far from "blogging" or "browsing" but until such day I wish the few hundred carefully picked participants each year all the help and wisdom they can get.