More will be revealed
It’s not even the end of January 2011 and so far it feels as if this year has expanded beyond its days, its minutes, its moments to contain unsettling, unexpected, and unexamined events. The year began with a harbinger of what was to be the theme of this year – trust. And that five letter word now pervades every meaning – can we trust government? Should we trust China? How long shall we trust our partners? Is it possible to trust our jobs? Is trust passé?
Trust, my fine readers, is the word of the year. And it’s a very sticky, stretchy, flexible, rigid word for a year such as this that did not begin auspiciously but instead arrived with portents hovering all over it. Trust is defined as reliance on integrity, strength, ability, surety of a person or thing. It is confidence in a person or thing. But trust also means hope, hope that a future is there that we might trust in.
Is it possible we, who survived the greatest federal disaster of all times – the failure of the levees to support our grand city, can no longer pretend to trust in a government? That we BP victims know for real that no corporation should or will be trusted? That having survived all the marriages and babies born out of 2005, we now find we can no longer trust the sanctity of those mergers?
Shouldn’t we have distrust fatigue? Is it we were lied to so many times we can’t trust anything or anyone anymore? Nietzsche said, “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
More will be revealed my dear readers, more will be revealed.