Trust Is Hard To Regain, Once It Is Lost

[Joanne98]

Trust in governments is falling. This is no surprise. Since WWII, governments that supposedly were ‘democratic’ have developed neo-Soviet-style secret systems. As police state/Big Brother rules proliferate, trust in governments fall. When we have the CIA or DARPA being used to terrorize or run secret assassination systems both inside and outside the laws, when we have top business, culture, media owners and government officials holding super-secret meetings whereby they get to conspire as to how they will control us, trust in all these people and systems falls. Paranoia grows greater.

Trust is hard to earn and easy to lose. For example, children trust their parents. But when they become teenagers, they often lose trust in their parents. They cease listening to parental warnings. And end up in very big trouble. Teens who survive their own stupidity then learn some harsh lessons and often end up regaining this sense of trust (you guys were right, after all!) which is rather amusing.

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The reason I talk about this trust/paranoia business is because we instinctively want to trust people who give us information but if we are badly burned, we cease trusting all information from these formerly trust-worthy sources. We then seek out other sources to trust and often fall into the hands of con artists, fraudsters and malicious people who like to mislead. Also, entire structures can be taken over by frausters, con artists, etc. This is especially true in religious communities. Anyone reading history can see a long, long parade of people exploiting the need to trust, using the faithful for cynical self-enrichment. For example, this is why all Popes live in one of the biggest, most expensive palace complexes on earth. Ditto, the Dali Lamas before the Chinese government clipped their wings a tad.

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We all have a desperate, deep need to trust someone. All con artists know this and cynically tap into this. ’Trust me,’ is a common command given by con artists. We are surrounded by con artists because most living creatures evolved with this ability to deceive. Deception was not created by humans. It is inherent in most species. Often, this is used to fool predators. But it is also used to keep others from consuming food one wishes to consume. From baby birds to baby mammals, the minute one is hatched or born, there is this struggle to grab as much of the parental feeding as possible. Any and every trick in the book is bred into the struggling infants. They inherit this ability to lie, cheat and steal. Humans are hardly the only organisms that can do this. Indeed, we may be probably the worst at doing this for we ‘think’ about these things and therefore, struggle to hide our deceptions and ’sins’.

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At Culture of Life News, I constantly try to jog people out of trusting me by asking them to look harder at what I write and thankfully, most people respond by correcting me when I am wrong (being mortal, I am often wrong, for example) or simply disbelieving me whenever I go against the story telling of other, rival web sites. People who are content to consume only the information generated by the mainstream media have no use to come here to read me. They are happy with the world view they are given by their chosen outlets.

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On the other hand, people who are suspicious of the official story come here and read me. But when I show suspicion of other ‘non-mainstream’ media, people reading me get angry and wonder if I am evil or crazy. This is due to trusting sources that are no more worthy of trust than any other sources. Trust is given as a means of making oneself feel ‘in control’. That is, once we decide to trust someone or something, we are hardwired to make ourselves instantly very naive and in addition, we then refuse any conflicting information even when this information is life and death.

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Becoming aware that we all have this mental structure inside our hard wiring of the brain is where true self-consciousness comes in. That is, the ability to see this part of the brain in operation is a skill, even a curse. Few people can see this part of their mental structure at all. This is because the place where ‘trust’ resides is also the identical place where ‘deceive all rivals’ also is. I have seen how people build up belief systems and then foist these on others using the ‘accumulate trust/spread paranoia’ systems. This is because all religions do this and all political belief systems are of this nature. The political and religious systems share the same bed because they are operating on the same singular place deep inside the human brain, part of the ‘older’ brain, not the forebrain, but deep inside, part of the brain that comes from our earliest evolution as egg-laying creatures.

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[opihimoimoi]

1. Poor Pubs... lost their creds a long time ago...