The Problem of Trust

If you don’t trust a merchant, will you do business with him? If you don’t trust a lawyer, would you rely on his advice? If you distrust a doctor, would you let him operate on you?

Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas said out loud what should by now be obvious to everyone.

“I no longer have trust in the institution,” Thomas said of the high court after the leak of a draft decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

Thomas was appalled by the breach of the court’s tradition of keeping tentative decisions secret until they are released in final form.

“It was beyond anyone’s understanding, or at least anyone’s imagination, that someone would do that,” said Thomas. “I do think what happened at the court is tremendously bad. I wonder how long we’re going to have these institutions at the rate we’re undermining them, and then I wonder when they’re gone or they are destabilized, what we’ll have as a country -- and I don’t think that the prospects are good if we continue to lose them.”

Any dispassionate assessment must conclude that what’s poisoned the high court to the point of being untrustworthy long ago spread to every institution in the land.

“Whom do you trust?” Make a list. It will be short, if you’re honest. Then make a list of the people, groups, and institutions you don’t trust. Not short at all.

The natural inclination of men to serve themselves at the expense of others is the root of distrust. Today, polls document Americans’ sinking faith in businesses, education, news agencies, even their religious institutions.

businesses, education, news agencies, even their religious institutions.

I've been a skeptic since I was a kid. I questioned everything, esp. authority. I got in a lot of trouble as a kid, but I survived. I think the problem with today's society is that we DON'T question everything anymore. We've bred several generations of hamsters just running in their wheels, enjoying their mobile devices with the ClipTok and the iTube.

Science? Pfft! Science requires healthy skepticism and a willing to challenge one's own assumptions about the world to come to a concrete fact. Groupthink is the way to go now. Decades of socialist and communist education theory has turned us into a nation of mindless drones.

Yes, I question businesses. When an organization renowned around the world for children's entertainment starts to pimp homosexuality to 9 year olds, I stop doing business with that organization.

When an institute of higher learning decides that pronouns and vaccination status are more important than whether or not an incoming freshman can read, I stop valuing the output from that institution.

When a news agency has to lie to maintain a narrative favorable to a political party that pays their bills, I stop patronizing that establishment.

And when my faith, led by someone who's supposed to be God's shepherd, tells me and my entire congregation and all of the congregations around the world that we should embrace homosexuality and Gaia and other nonsense that is in direct contradiction to the scriptures, well, then I move away from that faith.

This is bizarro world. If an alien came down when I was in my 20s and told me this is what life would be like when I was in my 40s, I would've been skeptical, yeah, but at that time I probably would've offered the alien a toke too.

(This is bizarro world)

I agree.

Unfortunately.

And it’s about to get worse, as the world moves towards the debut of Satan’s anti-messiah.

I mention it often. Because it’s very clear that we now live in a world 🌍 where “leaders” and institutions are trying to pervert and disrupt all that was normal and good.

Unfortunately.

Isaiah 5:20 and Genesis 19 are happening right in front of us.

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