Trust One Another

Today, I went to the bank to take some money out of my account and send it to my son.

I cut a bank check, but he still won’t be able to cash it at his bank, because he can’t cover the amount with his own funds. He has to deposit the check and withdraw it another day. He needs two forms of picture ID. The corporations don’t trust you and me. They can’t be cheated of their money, although they cheat us of ours.

I sent it overnight express, spent quite a bit of money for postage, but he has to be there to sign for it, and if he’s not, he has to go to the post office the next day to claim it. The government doesn’t trust us and says we shouldn’t trust our neighbors.

I came home and opened my bag from the clothing store. As usual, I went to snap the tag off, but this tag was made of stronger stuff than ever before. The plastic tore up my hand and made it bleed. I had to search for a sissors sharp enough to cut off the tag. The coporations don’t want us to steal from them, although they feel perfectly justified in stealing from us.

“No trust, no trust!” shouts the news programs and the drama TV shows and the magazines and newspapers and movies. Don’t trust one another, they admonish us. We’ll be cheated, robbed, and lied to. Violence will be done to us by our fellow puny humans. “Watch out!” they tell us. “Beware of one another! Carry a gun. It’s your right to defend yourselves.”

But who is cheating, stealing and lying to us? Who is causing the violence? Who manufactures and distributes the guns? Who makes us suspicious of one another, and sets us one kind against another, and isolates us from each other?

The Dominators and their Corporate lackeys, that’s who.

Trust is a revolutionary act.

TRUST ONE ANOTHER!
Love,
Lilly