Interesting accountability

What's interesting about accountability?

• the media are always demanding it - projects that have gone wrong attract the media in search of fault and blame, sometimes with incorrect figures and misunderstanding of situations. but it makes news.
  
• the various forms of accountability - there are so many that the concept keeps great minds busy attempting to explain and define
  
• democracy - accountability is key to democracy, which is the society that I'm told I am in. Presumably everyone round me is accountable for something, my parents for how they brought me up, the schools that did or did not diagnose special needs, government for the way it spends our taxes.
  
• people involved - this follows on from the others. In every accountable relationship - and accountability involves relationships - there must be at least two parties, and those parties can be groups, not just a single person. That's the most interesting thing about accountability - how many people are involved, and how they are involved and why and under what circumstances. It gets so complicated that you could spend hours analysing, and people do spend hours, days and I guess, lifetimes.