Crisis of trust.
Think about what you really believe in, what you want, what would improve your life, the life of your children, your parents and grandparents. Think about what will improve our society, what standard of moral and ethical and social responsibility and accountability you hold yourself to, and what standard you expect leaders in our community to hold themselves to.
Think about all these things and ask yourself a few questions:
Who can you count on in the financial industry?
Who can you count on in the transportation industry?
Who can you count on at the Department of Justice?
Who can you count on in the pharmaceutical industry?
Who can you count on in the insurance industry?
Who can you count on in the telecommunications industry?
Who can you count on in the church?
Who can you count on in the defense industry/Pentagon?
Who can you count on in the energy industry?
Who can you count on in the corporate media?
Who can you count on when it comes to keeping our air and water clean?
Who can you count on when it comes to food safety?
What system of accountability for anything can you presently trust?
Who can you count on to actively root out corruption and apply the rule of law?
How do you know for sure that anything your told about Al Qaeda or Bin Laden or "those who seek to do us harm" or the nuclear weapons ambitions of other countries is actually true?
How do you know that what your told about Iraq or Afghanistan or Pakistan or Iran or Israel or Lebanon or Egypt or Saudi Arabia or Syria or Somalia or anything that seems to require our military engagement is the absolute truth?
What about the war on drugs?
How many stories that you now read about in the news do you trust as an honest objective assessment of any situation? How many anonymous sources are you willing to offer the benefit of the doubt?
How many news organizations do you trust implicitly?
And finally, do you think things are getting better or worse?
