We Do Not Need Trust in a Divided World and Here Is Why

A response to the excellent article from Richard Gingras

Keno Ogbo
9 min readNov 1, 2023
Photo by Cytonn Photography on Unsplash

Postscript.

I am a dreamer, often unrealistic.

I wish I could walk with my feet firmly on the ground. I do, but oftentimes my head slowly disengages from my body and floats upwards into the clouds, into a good place. I always wish I could stay a while. I find comfort. I find solutions that could save the world. I love all, trust all and think the best of all people.

But life jerks, and I reconnect into the chaos. I land mid-race. People are all around me, but they do not acknowledge me. Everyone is pushing, jostling, all equally obsessed to get ahead. We trample each other, we kill, we hate. I raise my head to look.

“Where are we going,” I silently ask, as I give a hard shove to a stocky built man who dared get in my way. I could not see any destination, but the horde of humanity swept on in a single direction. Eight billion people cannot be wrong, I thought, as I gave into the chaos.

The famous human instinct. Survive. Fight or die.

I failed to notice as the thoughts from the good place in the clouds faded away. But yesterday, I stopped as I read this interesting article from Richard Gingras, he is Global…

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Keno Ogbo

A stochastic writer, delving into life, tech and fiction. Writing from her West African background, she tackles old issues with a fresh perspective.