I could get fired for this, you know.

As an operative for the CIA, I really shouldn’t be telling you anything, especially the fact that I am an international super-spy badass.

Wanna know some government secrets, that are, as of this moment, no longer secret?

China’s Politburo and its pesky Communists directly hacked Google’s computer systems during a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage and have broken into American government computers since 2002.

Much like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Vladimir Putin of Russia and Silvio Berlusconi of Italy are secret best buddies, who enjoy lavishly gifting each other.

Corruption alert! Last year, when visiting the United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan’s vice president was walking around loaded. And by loaded, I mean 52 million dollars in cash.

Yeah, so clearly I don’t work for the CIA, although I can move around with ninja-like stealth, and I am a badass.

I’m just extremely proficient at Internet-ing and reading WikiLeaks. Well really, reading The New York Times synopsis of WikiLeaks.

Oh yes, just as diplomacy was going nowhere, we get this.

Thanks much, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. You just made our lives a lot more complicated.

Rahm Emanuel is probably jumping around delightedly in Chicago, thanking his lucky stars that he left early.

But as much as the media is making the newly leaked confidential documents out to be an enormous setback for international diplomacy, how bad is it, really?

Sure, WikiLeaks crossed a line, and people are pissed. A few egos were burnt, insults were slung and details were brought to light.

What we see in these new cables are primarily name-calling and slights against other foreign ministers.

It’s a big deal, but is it that big a deal?

Once again, the issue has been blown out of proportion. Thank you, modern media – we’ve progressed a long way since Woodward and Bernstein first took the national stage with Nixon, but not necessarily for the better (cough sensationalism cough).

Just as the holiday season rolls around, we are reminded yet again what dark and dangerous times we live in (Oh the horror! North Korea throwing a tantrum!). December 2004 was the year of the tsunami, December 2008 looked a little like Christmas circa 1929, and December 2012 is to be full of apocalyptic Mayan vengeance.

The global economy is still crumbling! Wall Street is stealing my money! Terrorists can strike at any time!

Look closer. We are now at the lowest levels of global violence since the 1950’s. The share of people living on $1 a day has dropped from 40 percent in 1981 to 18 percent in 2004.

Harvard’s polymath professor Steven Pinker has even ventured to say that we are probably living “in the most peaceful time of our species’ existence.”

It doesn’t feel that way, though.

That’s because of the immediacy of the world-wide web, the urgency with which reporting is done and the increasing dramatization of the images that headline our favorite news sources.

I’m not saying that the threats we face aren’t pressing or dire. I’m just saying that, much like the artificial lights that go up around this season, they burn a little too brightly and a little prematurely.

You’re probably scoffing right now. “Oh freshman, she has not been jaded yet. You know what, kid? The world is round. It has no point.”

Perhaps it’s just the infectious holiday season that is causing me to feel so cheerful and glass-is-half-full perky. And yes, we haven’t hit finals week yet.

But as Robert Frost, the world’s most over-quoted author, aptly put it, “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.”

International diplomacy will move on, the economy will rebound and in two years time, we will hopefully not be conflicted with global natural disasters.

HuffPo may disagree for the time being, but some new crisis will pop up and the American public will once again be bombarded with updates of some impending doom we are sure to face.

The recent outpouring of “secret” information on WikiLeaks may give a raw look into governments’ back room dealings, it may show that we are distrustful of each other and sometimes back-stabbing and it may give insight into the quirks of various political figures.

Beyond what we’re presented at first though, we see leaders struggling to maintain the survival of their states, countries rationally fearing those that are stronger and potentially dangerous to the health of their people and political figures, seemingly enemies, becoming friends.

Distrust runs rampant through negotiations, and it can get aggravating. But it’s also human.

There’s the classic Bible story of Lot and his wife, the latter of which is told not to look back as the city of Gomorrah burns. Naturally, she does and turns into a pillar of salt.

At one point or another we all turn into pillars of salts. We look back – what happened during negotiations, how did Syria really feel about Lebanon and so on?

It’s interesting information, that’s true. But this, too, shall pass.

We’re in for a fun December.

Happy Holidays, everyone.