Today I want to talk today about the 3rd concept of OA service:
3. The right of decision, based on trust, makes effective leadership possible.
Trust
This is a very hard concept right now. There are so many reasons not to trust
- Deep fake AI
- Deliberate disinformation distributed both by domestic and foreign actors
- Corruption
- Unfounded conspiracy theories
- Scam messages (phone, e-mail, social media)
Also it is hard to trust God. Look what is happening in the world: genocide; hunger; war; natural disasters; all manner of suffering and horrendous obstacles to life itself.
But, in fact, nothing works if we lack trust. If we are constantly plotting, hiding, doubting, mistrusting, nothing works. Society falls apart. We cannot even drive a car without trusting other drivers to behave themselves.
If we trust God, we can be more serene, not trying to control things that in fact we cannot control. People who trust God live longer, because they have less stress. People who trust God are less likely to engage in self-destructive compulsive behavior like addiction.
If people trust each other, there is so much less work in checking, counter-checking, installing security devices and software.
Yet, I find that people reaching out to me on social media are almost invariably scammers. On Instagram, in my real name account, I have to block several scammers every single day. Yesterday, I went through my hidden message requests and had to block a dozen scammers.
It's very hard to operate with trust in these circumstances.
I noticed recently that FB messenger they've introduced a 6 digit PIN. I'm resisting creating one, because it seems like too much trouble -- yet I know that they've been plagued by hackers and this is what they're doing to try to combat that. I never want to click on links in FB messenger, because I know that's how you get hacked.
When I was growing up, it was not the case that people called us with scams. Of course, at that time long distance phone calls cost money, while now most plans have unlimited long distance calling within the USA. It's that very nice thing of having essentially free long distance that makes scams so easy.
Yet, trust is what keeps the peace. Trust is what makes things work. Trust is what allows us to surrender to God. Trust is what makes us realize that we are not in charge, that we can't control things, that only HP can control things, so that we have to trust whether we like it or not.
Sort of a conundrum -- yet so important.
