A Treatise On Trust

You're not to be trusted.

Go ahead. Ask anyone if you should eat for free like a kitten. Trust is a commodity forever undeserved and impossible to earn. Why? Because you can't be trusted! (Circular logic is always the best!) Or, at least, we have deemed that to be a truism.

But I noticed a funny thing about those who harp on man's "inevitable" treachery: it's always done by those who betray trust themselves. They want perversion accepted as fact: that the nature of man is evil and any society must be built upon that precept. And that is what we've done, but as I look around me the world is dying though we honor this "truth". Wassup wit dat?

These traitors among us claim to speak with insight and understanding. "It is the naive, the blind and the fatally foolish who paint man as anything but evil. After all, look at our deeds throughout history and who can say differently. We crucified our savior for God's sake! What more proof does one need?" These unholy priests make such assertions with high authority and brook no disagreement. But their fury comes from the fear of being unmasked, not from conviction. To translate their words: "I'm an evil loser and I can't stand it if anyone does better than me!"

But we all know the truth, no matter how well hidden or dedicated we are to pretending otherwise. There's supposed safety in numbers and most people smarmily assert distrust is a loathsome but necessary pillar of any society - even if it results in ultimate destruction. But the irony of Nature is we all have to trust, there's no way around it. Survival is a group effort. So you're gonna trust *something*. So we've put our trust in distrust.

Looking for the unemployed

Blackmail is the god of a distrustful society. Its principle states that no human deserves to live by virtue of being born, he must be made to do good. One must earn food, water, shelter, medical care, clothing and every other item under the sun. It is assumed all babies are born evil, for even their requirements are sold, not given. There's no trust in blackmail - but that's why we trust it!

"Without requiring money, no one will work!" Most of us have been brainwashed into believing that, that without blackmail society will collapse - even though it's collapsing anyway! But what can one say about the integrity of a system that says "you must work to live" and then denies a person the right to work? It says that is not a system about life, but of ownership and slavery, claiming the right to determine life and death, like a godless religion.

Yes, it is true, most of us don't have much integrity, it's why we allow this insanity to continue. The broke, the starving, the de facto slaves of working poor will cry out against the system but would they if they had millions? It's all about buying souls, taking the bribe and saying, "Yes, there are injustices but things are good for me." Most of us cannot rise above that but even that is not fatal as human weakness is to be expected. It's the fact we don't recognize our human weaknesses that's the Achilles heel.

Because we've made a religion of our system, questioning it is verboten. "People who work are good, people who don't are bad." The conversation begins and ends there for blind adherents to our religion. Listen to those forced out of work and hear the guilt they express. The guilt doesn't come from being unemployed - as they often allege - but from believing in the first place in the lies of a system that now betrays them. Leaves one feeling rather foolish.

The truth is we have no choice but to trust one another. No matter how vile thy neighbor, your job is to nurture trust. Why? Because it's every person's job to be trustworthy. There's no system possible that can ultimately make up for a perfidious people. So the goal is to give the best chance possible, to grant life to every person regardless, that even if life is ultimately rejected, at least the chance was given to make things work. Way things stand now, there is no hope despite all the pretentious chest beating one hears from insanity's enablers.

Don't shoot!

To the brainwashed and/or corrupt mind, the height of insanity is to freely hand out the rudiments of survival with no questions asked. "You can't just grow food and give it out. No! Never! Never!" But the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing expecting a different result. Clearly what we're doing now has no hope and is reaching the point of irreversible suffering yet we cling to the false dictum of "There is no other way!" But that oath applies only to trusting.

It doesn't take a prophet to use logic, but Moses saw this coming:

When such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself and therefore thinks, "I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way." This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

But what the hell. I guess everyone needs a plan, huh? Maybe I'm underselling starvation.

Every life is a cry for love. The need for love will rule for all eternity, determining the fate of every individual. Love is like water, choose it and live, reject it and die. There is no god with a ledger of judgement determining our fates. We write our own names in the Book of Life. So yes, you can say you don't need love - but you will die just the same. Time bears this out every day and there will come a time when all those who reject life die by their own hand. You were expecting something different?

Still don't believe in trust? Then re-read this post and substitute "love" for the word "trust".

A world based on this would be horrific!