My goodness we are obsessed with covering the Toyota recall. Why? we have had lots of recalls in our lives. General Motors, children's cribs, toys...why so much interest in Toyota? Maybe it has to do with where we place our trust...and faith. My dad was a body and fender man. He worked on a lot of American made cars. He was comfortable with them. Then our country started filling up with Toyotas and Hondas. Why? we believed in them. We knew they got better gas mileage, and they were of very high quality. Consumer reports (another of our generation's inventions) proved it!
This was a generational thing. We took a risk to break away from our parent's generation in our choice of foreign made (or foreign owned and made on American soil as it is now). To have such a massive recall is to shake our faith in our trusted idol. My fear is that Honda will be next...I always trusted Honda first, Toyota next. So I can handle this recall, as my top idol is still standing...but what if it too falls?
It happened to me when I realized the faults in the Catholic church dogma. For a while I wandered around without any focus for my faith, until a friend introduced me to Unitarian Unviersalism. It is not a perfect faith, we stumble now and then, but we have built into us a tradition of heresy, to keep us getting better and to keep us current with new wisdom. Heresy is a good thing. New wisdom starts as a minority opinion. Heresy only exists in a faith that is alive and well. So if some fracture happens in UU, my faith won't be shaken, I'll just know that we are changing as we should, and "All will be well." I hope Toyota finds the same thing, as they have served us well. But I hope Honda is making a list and checking it twice.
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