Rebuilding trust is not easy, as anyone who has betrayed or been betrayed by a friend or lover knows, but the path involves transparency, oversight and accountability.
Sure.
But seriously, I don’t think we can. We’re still learning things, the transparency phase has barely started. People will get tired of hearing about lies, we already are. Relentlessness, we don’t have a lot of that. We just want to be happy.
Oversight? I don’t see how to oversee anything, the system runs by itself and does whatever the hell it wants. Opacity is out of control. And accountability, you can’t just re-create it when it’s been shown over and over that powerful, usually accountable people get away with anything. The worst part being that all these people profiting this are going to live longer than any previous human generation.
I don’t know for you but personally I’m having a terrible time to trust anything, anyone, anymore at a lot of levels. It feels like the world is constantly showing me how every time I give this trust, people will abuse it. I’m not even mad in terms of ego, it’s more the fantastic inefficiency of it that drives me crazy. It hasn’t always been this way but now I have more data and my lone wolf guts are telling me to trust and verify, which means not trusting.
That sucks but if everyone does it maybe trust would come back at some point, when things are cleaner. I don’t believe in miracles though. Hey, the planet is getting hotter! I like heat so there’s that.