Trust

I’m 73. I grew up in a world in which there were many institutional social and economic injustices. It was certainly no perfect world. But schools were safe. The streets were safe to play in. The doors of our home were open. I knew virtually no one who owned a gun. That was the world I grew up in. No nostalgia.

But sadly, trust in on the chopping block today. We don’t trust government. We don’t trust the justice system. We don’t trust corporate America. We don’t feel safe in church or school. We don’t feel safe on the streets or in our homes. Security systems, cameras and checkpoints are everywhere. We might even expect one day to be saved from danger by a random concealed-carry gun owner.

Systems of security seem so necessary that we forget that acceptance of these systems is also acceptance that we cannot trust.

What does that mean then for the way we live our lives?