My problem is sometimes trying to please people, the only way you can deal with it, is to lie. Lying may be wrong, and a sin, but we all do it. At my age, I find it's really hard to tell anybody the truth, without being dismissed as uninformed, a radical, or with a thousand personal attack questions.

You Can't Even Trust Your Own Generation

People of my generation, and those with ties not so directly to my family are far easier to communicate to, and be honest to. The fact is that you can't trust anybody over 30, as Mark Rudd's famous statement goes. People over 30 lived through a different generation, they see things differently, and have been sold into the establishment.

But can you even trust people of your generation? Could some of your friends be double operatives, whose loyalty is not only to you, but to foreign powers? The FBI and the CIA have been known to employee saboteurs and spies, even in peaceful activities.

Or maybe it's less then federal government spying on you. It could be your friends aren't truly loyal to you—they may have other friends and other interests, that could conflict with you. When they pretend to be nice to you, are they really being loyal to you, or are the serving their own personal interests?

Economists usually note everybody acts in their own personal interest, no matter how convoluted that may be. Which is scary, is there anybody that is truly loyal to you? If they are acting only for their benefit, how can they be trusted. That's why you can't tell the truth, even if you want to.

Unknown Faces You Have To Trust

It's scary how many unknown people we have to trust everyday of our lives. Do you know your dinner your cooking isn't coated with some kind of toxic chemical that won't kill you? Or that the people at the factory that made that, gave enough of a damn to ensure it was safe to eat, or if they just kind of slammed it into line, and did a crappy job of making it.

Or do you know if you at that black kid in the corner the wrong way, if he will toss a molotov cocktail in your car, and kill you? All because he had something that happened in his life that you can't understand or will never know about. Or that people are going to obey traffic signals, so you can safely cross an intersection? it's very scary trying to guess what other people you don't know are going to do.

Or countless othe cases. Trust is a very difficult thing to do, and it constantly puts you in danger. But without it, our society would fall apart. We need trust keep our society going.

Weakness Can Be Found Almost Anywhere

In any complex system, there is bound to be weaknesses and fault lines, that may be exploited for the benefit of certain individuals. Thats great, if your the one that is getting the advantage of the exploit, but if your suffering from it, your losing out.

Even with a complex and careful security system at airports, terrorists managed to get through, and hijack 4 planes. That was with probably some of the best security possible. They found weaknesses in the system and exploited them. No system is safe from such exploits of trust.

We depend so much as a society on others, that it's hard to avoid a persistant cuss from exploiting it. As they say, if there is a will, there is a way. Our society is so complex, it can never be protected, nor can any individual ever feel truly safe.

That gets back to the reliance we have on others. There really is no way to break that, wihile continuing to live in our society. Like it or not, that's how it works. As long as it works, the way it currently does, we will be vunerable.