"lucrative lethal loyalty" - week in review 2023-12-15

it says on the American dollar bill: In God We Trust? is that so? Voltaire — 'Fiat currency always eventually returns to its intrinsic value — zero.' say it isn't so! — & so, what is there to trust?
delineate these: faith, belief, truth. & consider — loyal to God, loyal to the state, loyal to an ideology, loyal to a cause, loyal to a country, loyal to a friend, family, job, discipline, dream, religion, politic, media, a company, a brand, money?
Franz Kafka — 'Like a dog! he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.'