1. How can we ensure that important records survive to act as building blocks of culture after they have satisfied their business and regulatory requirements?
2. Discuss some of the challenges involved in making and keeping reliable records in the electronic and global world.
3. In our personal/ private lives, recordkeeping is often overlooked or intentionally avoided. How can we better ensure that the private, creative and spiritual aspects of humans are documented regularly and fully?
4. Although true records are man-made, naturally occurring things as
flood marks on buildings, core samples of earth, growth rings of trees
are sometimes used as 'evidence'.
a. Discuss several examples of naturally occurring 'records' and explain
what each is able to 'prove'?
b. What are the strengths and limitations of using these materials as
proof?
5. The 1967 Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility
and Desirability of Peace asserts that governments are justified,
even required, to trigger or manufacture 'outrage incidents' and/or manipulate
the facts surrounding such events to deceive the public into supporting
their actions and continuing them in power if the 'good of the nation'
is threatened or served. Are such means unworthy of countries with liberal,
democratic values and regimes?
You can read the report on Bill Holmes' US Political Resources website
at http://political-resources.com/misc/rimpdp/default.htm
6. They say that crime never pays, but with forgery-based hoaxes, that
maxim has not always rung true. It may even be said that some forgeries
ultimately achieve positive outcomes. Can you name some examples where
hoaxers or victims may be said to have benefited or the public good has
been served because of a deception?
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