Chris Herrington, Contributing Writer
Trust remains an elusive idea when it comes to trusting everyone, and that makes sense, given the world we live in, right? I mean you can’t trust everyone all the time; that would be a mistake. I wonder if we can trust ourselves to do what is right in the absolute sense. Certainly, no one is perfect, and that’s what that means, right? Sometimes you can’t even trust yourself.
We seem to have this unerring sense of what others need to do, and yet we ourselves make mistakes. How do we know what others need to do when we ourselves can’t get it right 100% of the time? Would you trust someone who is not right 100% of the time? That’s what we ask others to do when we give them advice. And if we are wrong, we can say, “Oops, sorry you lost all your money!” That’s what brokerage houses do when we allow them to buy stocks for us and the market goes bad.
But there is nothing new in that, since pharmaceuticals do the same thing when a drug they sold us turns out to cause malfunction or death. It’s what happens when we go to a store to buy food and some of the food is contaminated and we get sick or die. “Oops, my bad.” And one can make a mistake.
If the captain of a boat runs the boat aground and 11 million gallons of oil or milk or baby food dumps out on the street, in a river, or out into the ocean, there will be an investigation and we will know definitively there was a second shooter on the grassy knoll, right?
After a while, the stories all start to run together. Insulation, cigarettes, weight loss pills, meat, peanut butter, bonds, securities, derivatives, candy, paint, medicine, bank loans, government waist, Congressional hearings, Presidential races, negotiations, treaties, your best friend and you know where that is heading: It all stacks up until it is a wonder we trust anyone anytime for anything.
So, you have all of these really super-hyper-elite investors who would stop at nothing, and are often charged as being psychopaths, running major companies that are vying for cheaper resources, lower costs for labor, and deeper dividends for investors like themselves, and they all want a piece of the planet, and there are only so many and the land is limited like on a Monopoly board, and I don’t see how that could possibly go wrong, do you?
I mean, who do you trust to own it all? If someone could earn a trillion, why not a trillion trillion, all of it? There is not one safeguard in place anywhere in the world that safeguards the planet from a hostile takeover by some elite investor who literally buys the planet at below wholesale. Not one.
I know that would take a fleet of lawyers, okay. But you have to start somewhere. The Hunt Brothers tried to corner the silver market. Oil is a good place to start. Or water. All you have to do is leverage what you have, stay ahead of a curve you create by manipulating the market, and cycle around the dead bodies of the legion of fallen corporations worldwide as you look for more and more dead meat.
Elephants are not the king of the jungle, but they do sometimes go rogue. Nevertheless, a pride of lions can still take them down one by one. All you need is wicked sharp teeth and a killer disposition, because you know what they say, “It’s only business, so don’t take this personally.”
Fiscal cliff, United Nations, trade negotiations, international treaties, WTO, World Bank, counter espionage, Cold War, Live Data, loss of personal privacy, the Patriot Act, these are not things that act without your consent, are they? You are in complete control. Manifest Destiny, imminent domain, land grant, military intelligence, contractors, the New World Order, Wal-Mart, the newspaper you read, the news source you depend on, the schools where your kids go, the things you might say given the situation and how the wind is blowing today, right? Complete control!
And then your 13 year-old looks you in the eye and starts in with those odd ball questions. “Dad, if all we feed our dog is the same dog food every day for his entire life, and they have figured out exactly what it is that makes a dog healthy and it comes in a pellet the size of your fingernail, why can’t they do that for people so we don’t have to have 1000 kinds of diets that don’t work?”
Mind blowing kids. He is heading straight for Wall Street I am sure. I trust we will be in good hands now, right?
runningturtle87
