subject: Please Let Me Believe You [print this page] Today, this kind of tendency of never believing the information without sound proof has already seeped into most people's life: when we have meals, we doubt the food security; when we go on a journey, we do not believe the ability and the sincerity that the railroad sector shows for solution of the difficulty that ordinary people meet when they are striving to buy a precious ticket; in the hospital, we doubt that the doctor has prescribed excessive medicines only to get extra commission; and if we are brought to a lawsuit, we do not believe the judicature can maintain fairness. It seems that we no longer believe in those conditions which used to be self-evident to our parents.
Some people say that the sense of happiness stems from trust. But when suspicion has become the collective consciousness of entire crowd, how sharp the distance is between the Chinese people and the sense of happiness.
Actually, it is not necessarily true that not believing must be worse than believing. In both history and reality, suspicion sometimes is an indication of one kind of progress, showing that there are more information channels and degree of openness of the society has been increased. But our question is we tend to go to extremes and even to create the maximums in the world. The so-called Golden Mean only is the fiction, while in the reality, many people tend to do what others cannot and come out the ideas that others could not think. Once we believe some person, we may follow his order to do anything absurd such as to cut off with our parents, our sons as well as our spouses. But once we lose trust in something, the food security for example, we no longer eat none of the Toufou which has been suspected of some safety problems or we no longer drink domestically produced milk powder or even we would not help those aged who have fallen down just because we are in fear of being blackmailed.
Such being the case, we tend to be at a total loss as to who and what we can trust besides ourselves. Actually, when we do anything, there is potential risk, but can we just give up eating just because we are worried that possibly we may be choked? Therefore, although we may suffer from some danger, we still need to trust the world because we need to survive with the sense of happiness but rather merely with foods and water.
