I don’t know if you are aware, but human interaction is almost solely based on trust. A very basic system, we are willing to cloud in all kinds of reasoning and symbolic interpretation. Trust remains a singular reason to act. This can result in completely nonsensical behaviour. As such, we believe people with money and or fame to be more trustworthy than, say your neighbour. Interestingly, we trust people who have money or fame with more money and fame,  if we have to choose between them or our neighbour.

In the same fashion, we don’t trust people who do not have a job. ‘Why’s that?’, you might wonder? Well, they can do what they want. This means that there is no way you can count on their input in society. Not even if they are 100% supportive and working on things benefitting all of us. We’d rather have them filling their time with something completely useless, if that means us knowing what that is.

So, what do we do with people we do not trust, but who’s behaviour is nevertheless not criminal or otherwise detrimental to society? We intitutionalise them. We give the some kind of label and group them. Scientifically one could put a label for trust level on every such group. But we don’t. It wouldn’t be ‘human’ to do so. Instead we have this intricate politicized way of grouping others. For those affected, it will be discrimination or bigotry, and effectively that will be the case. Because not trusting someone also means that the other one will have less worth to you. So inherently trusting someone rich and famous over someone ordinary is actually the kind of discrimination we all abhor.

That said… We live in an era where trust is worth less than our symbol for value. In other words… One can buy trust. So humanity is inherently corrupt. We have developed this system, where we believe people who are knowledgeable on a subject to be trustworthy, and education and hierarchy tells us their worth. Trust however, depends on people’s relation to each other. Nowadays we think we can put control on others by means of registration and we believe this to be a way to define trust. Anybody can see where this is going. There is money involved.

Our governments are trying to be independent of civilians… Civilians trying to be independent of governments… Corporations try to be independent of both and even vice versa. Their dependency only being the symbol for exchange and not the physical exchange and well being of people anymore. (i.e. money) When the goal of life is the symbol of exchange or an expression for the potential to do so, which is then a label of trust, we all live in this enormous pyramid game of mutual behavioural glue.

There will be chaos.