Trust

If you look up the word trust in a dictionary you'll come to realize that it is a ephemeral condition in our post post modern world. When you consider the synonyms for trust such as faith, reliance, confidence and dependence, you're confronted with an uncomfortable truth : we can have no assurance (a related concept to trust) that trust should even exist or should be deserved by our leaders and institutions, by the media or, sadly, by one another.

Trust is dangerous.  In a society which has been intellectually anesthetized and is incapable of critical thinking, it can be betrayed and used as an instrument of control.  Critical thinking isn't easy and is sometimes uncomfortably painful. It requires sceptisism and doubt which are the antethisis of trust.  It's easier and more pleasant to be disracted and escape through entertainment, drugs and reality shows.
We should challenge ourselves and question everything, ask why.

Trust requires engagement and interaction with others. It demands that we immerse ourselves in another person's struggle and that we honestly try to understand what they are experiencing. Unalloyed empathy is challenging and strangely unnatural, but it is crucial to understanding ourselves and our world, and to discovering where trust is merited.

Through our own intellectual self reliance we can begin to rediscover the humanity in man and put man at the center of civil society, at the center of existence.