"Trust is Missing"

So wrote Paul Johnson, eminent British historian and author, "We do not trust--and with good reason--either our elected leaders or the corporate elite who constitute the top echelons of society. Seldom in modern history has the lack of trust, now verging on contempt, been so deep, so universal and comprehensive.

At the very top we have a sad bunch of flawed mediocrities, Obama, Merkel, Sarkosky, Brown, and Berlusconi not to mention Ortega, Chavez, Castro on dozens of others of their ilk.

Now, as the theory of man-made global warming unravels, scientists are suddenly (probably not suddenly, my comment) and devastatingly revealed as fallible mendacious, self-seeking, criminally secretive, furtively trying to hide their errors, debasing the system of peer review of scientific papers and conspiring to conceal the truth from once highly respected professional publications.

The center has not held. More devastating, in a sense, is the loss of trust in entire categories of people who once formed bastions of integrity at the heart of society."

Other than listing failed world leader; he quoted Disraeli in describing our president , " A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity", Mr. Johnson is talking about the sad situation in Britain. But he could be talking about Peoria where our leadership has become lest trustworthy in that "are they telling the truth or embellishing it to fit their own agenda, special interests or lack of history, past and even present history of the last decade".

On 8/06/04, one of my first blogs was titled "Conceptions, Misconceptions, Perceptions, Truths and Subtle Lies". On 5/19/05, I blogged "Blind
Beliefs", and on 5/23/09, I blogged "The Search for Truth". These, along with 1100 plus blogs can be found on my archive sidebars.

Let the thinking reader be the judge of what is going on in this country when 75% of students are cheating in the school according to a survey taken by Rutgers' Management Education Center in New Jersey. This sad situation was reported by ABC New, Friday, February 29, 2008. A survey taken in 2006, showed 60% of students admitted cheating on a test. Source - Michael Crowley at outrageous@rd.com

Government leads the way for all to cheat. NCLB led to inflated scores by some teachers, lying about the use of illegal drugs use led to drug testing, getting elected caused outrageous lies as committed by Clinton, Bush, Balgo, Obama plus locals such as a recent local #150 school board member and some current legislators in Springfield.

Mr. Johnson is correct and most of us know that lying often becomes a part of who we are and what will eventually be the fate of this great country.