Tuesday, July 2, 2024
There seems to be compelling reason to worry about people who make decisions on our behalf. At the national level, we fret about leaders who decide the future of social security, immigration, and spending. At the local level, we fret about those making policies that might allow “riffraff” in our neighborhood. While teaching, I remember we faced serious budget cuts, low enrollment, or curriculum mandates from “on high.” Leaders haven’t a clue, neither do followers. The whole system is trust-based.
Let those in higher places call the shots. Think about all those people who make decisions on your behalf. It’s difficult to fathom the trickle down effects. Leaders themselves are making decisions blindly. Nobody has foreknowledge. There is no one “at the top” who sees circumspectly. Leaders and followers are blind as bats. A person in “high places” has no special decision-making abilities. We are all operating on trust, even if we don’t even realize it.
The universe is a hierarchy of intelligence. The system is governed precisely, although it appears chaotic and random. Can’t you sense this in yourself? The sensible part of you knows better than the animalistic part. We just don’t trust our higher sensibilities, which moves by faith, not by sight. The System (of which you are a miniature version) works purely on faith that “top management” knows precisely what it’s doing, even when evidence seems contrary. This process is working in you and where compliance is critical.
To distrust the system is anarchy. To the trusting, it’s perfectly secure, perfectly ordered, and intelligent beyond the perception senses. The system is authoritative. When you trust, you’re at ease and can live in harmony with the anarchists who are pretending there is an idiot in the sky, asleep at the controls, or that the universe is nothing but a windup toy headed for ruin. Surely, you know better.