Trust In Tangent

On behalf of Jim Wagner I am posting a topic he requested. It was a comment he made earlier but requested it become a topic for discussion. Thank you, Seaton

Today, (May 20, 2006) we saw yet another case that indicates how low trust is between some Tangent residents. Seaton made an error when he tried one of his audio CDs (with recording of a city meeting) in one of the City Computers. In raising an alarm about this, some of which may have been warranted, it was questioned why anyone would want to record city meetings on their own and seemed to imply that some nefarious motive was behind this. In fact, the audio quality is superior to that provided by the City's little tape recorder, it records a lot longer without having to change any tapes, and duplicates can be made in a very short time, very inexpensively, for anyone who wants one. Seaton is simply doing this as a public service and I applaud his effort. It seems so strange that any other motive would be suspected. And, even if there were another motive, citizens have a right to do so. A similar situation arose when Seaton reported the presence of "family and cake" at the most recent Brush Remand Hearing. He was reporting a simple fact; nobody denies that Brush family and cake were present! Yet, some saw this as criticism of the Brushes! May I simply suggest that we, all of us, curb the tendency to read undesirable motives into our neighbors actions? Tangent is too small to be able survive this for very long. We have to live together and when we view are neighbors actions with automatic suspicion, we ALL loose. Thanks everyone.

Jim Wagner