Just when you’ve thought corruption in America has reached the point of no return, and begin to believe that “trust” is just another word for sucker, someone gives us reason for hope.
Via The Huffington Post – The perspective of Peggy Drexler:
an excerpt from The End of Normal: Is Trust for Suckers?
We’ve learned from pedophile priests that those we trust with our children could harm them. We learned from Katrina that that the person our government assigned to rescue us from natural disaster could be a whimpering idiot. We learned from Iraq that our leaders could lie to engineer a war in the name of a murky geo-political end game. We learned from Enron and MCI that that the letters CEO could stand for: cheat, evade and over-compensate.
When trust is so massively abused in the largest arenas, what happens in the smallest ones? It looks like comedienne Lilly Tomlin was on to something when she said: “Just when you think you’re too cynical, you realize you’re not cynical enough.”
The current truth of that statement points to a very a big problem. Even getting back on the road to normalcy – let alone restoring it – may take a level of cooperation and shared sacrifice that an entire post-war population has never experienced; even contemplated. It is going to demand trust in the very same financial managers and government overseers that caused this mess in the first place. Those who are being asked for their faith and sacrifice will rightly ask: “Why?”
Continue over to Peggy’s excellent post to find out “Why”?.
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Lilly Tomlin was on to something when she said: “Just when you think you’re too cynical, you realize you’re not cynical enough.”
Too true. The one thing about these bailouts and government oversight is that it is our government, which has quite a history of governing poorly and ignoring real problems so what makes them qualified to get us out of this mess.
Posted 09 Dec 2008 at 12:58 am ¶Trackbacks & Pingbacks 1
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