In a world shaken by crisis, one idea changed everything. This novel traces the rise of Trigonocracy—a new form of government that challenged the global order—and the quiet story behind its creation.
Told through the reflections of a war veteran, his children, and the generations shaped by reform, this novel explores how a single manuscript sparked a movement. But behind the author of this reform lies a truth few ever suspected: the idea was born not in the halls of power, but in the mind of a refugee child who had lost everything, yet dared to imagine a better world.
Blending historical fiction with philosophical depth, May We Trust is a story about resilience, anonymity, and the fragile line between progress and upheaval. It asks: if the world embraced an idea without knowing its origin—can it still claim to understand its meaning?
Waldemar Schwarzkopf
May We Trust
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Preface
This work is based on real scientific research. For interested readers, and, more importantly, respecting the authors of the scientific papers, the underlying scientific papers are cited in the following:
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Chapter 1: A Summer Evening in the Garden
Sheltered by the promise of more agreeable temperatures, Noah settled into his deck chair, which had been carefully placed at the edge of the terrace. It was a long, narrow garden nestled within the parcelled layout of the suburbs. An idyllic stillness reigned, rich with vegetation – trees, shrubs, beds of fruit and vegetables, and a variety of herbs, all surrounded by a well-kept lawn. In the distance, the sounds of children playing could be heard, and now and then, the echo of a passing car.
Noah, now an older man, sighed with relief as he sank into the chair. In his hand, he held a stack of stapled papers – a manuscript. From his shirt pocket, he retrieved a pencil, adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and began to read.
It was a draft written by his son, Lucas, who had asked his father, as a witness of the times, to verify the details, to make the work as authentic as possible. It was a chapter from a book about Lisa Laurent – a name that has stirred much attention in recent years. A name that had entered the annals of history.
Noah had lived through everything his son was now writing about, though not from the bird’s-eye view of an author. He had experienced it all as a child, a teenager, a young man, and finally as someone who, at times, had wished he hadn’t lived through it at all. But that was how things were, and as a good father, he did his best to support his son’s work with the knowledge he carried.
Chapter 3: The Life of Lisa L. – a mocking, yet deliberately provocative title. Noah liked it. On the first page, proudly written: First Draft by Lucas Blake. Noah smiled. He folded the first sheet aside and began to read.
The introductions and explanations of the characters, the world – or rather, the time – in which the novel was set had already been covered in the previous chapters, which Noah had read as an early editor. He had been the obvious choice for the task, having lived through it himself. He had seen that time with his own eyes.
His seasoned gaze swept across the printed page. But what he read was something he couldn’t immediately judge. It was about the origins of what had changed the world in recent decades. The story of a young researcher, whose fate the entire world now knew. And yet, therein lay the intrigue: everyone knew how it ended, while no one truly knew how it began.
The beginnings were so inconspicuous, so subtle and seemingly unimportant, that for a long time no one paid them any attention. Even the idea itself was only acknowledged when it should already have been taken seriously. But such is human nature, Noah thought as he read through the paragraphs. An idea is first ignored, then ridiculed, then fought – and finally, everyone claims they supported it all along. Something like that, the good old Gandhi had said. Something like that.
Amid the lines, something struck him. How did Lucas intend to carry the story forward, if from the outset it was clear that what he described might not have happened that way at all? Was it more than just a historical novel? A work of fiction? A kind of impressionistic portrayal of history?
Then again, he mused, perhaps it would captivate readers precisely because of its contradictions with established facts. Who knows – Lucas had told his father nothing concrete about the content.
So he kept reading.
“While Lisa Laurent was working on her dissertation during her student years – focused on the vulnerabilities of political structures – she began to notice recurring cases that gradually revealed a pattern. Out of concern for the scientific coherence of her thesis, she chose not to include these insights in her official work. Instead, she compiled them in a separate notebook, one that rarely left the shelf in her office.
Eventually, her efforts culminated in academic recognition, and she was awarded a doctorate in political science. The years passed, and she pursued her career without giving much thought to the dusty notebooks from her doctoral years.
Then the world grew uneasy. Crises, wars, economic recessions, and pandemics swept across the globe. As a master of her field, she recognized that the root causes of these calamities could often be traced back to misalignments within societal and political structures. By the time even tabloid newspapers began questioning whether the people in power were truly fit to lead, she remembered her old notebook. It, too, had raised the question of elite competence – alongside many other issues in need of resolution.
Lisa Laurent was no ordinary woman when it came to problems. Certainly, one needs talent and tenacity to earn one’s stripes in academia. But she took it further. In her view, every problem could be solved, no matter how complex or hopeless it seemed. One simply needed enough information – and the cleverness and creativity to use it.
And as insurmountable, as vast, and as crushingly inhuman as the global issues of corruption, high finance, and political imbalance were – this problem, she increasingly felt, was not only solvable. It demanded a solution. And who, if not she, was to provide it?
Without the faintest idea of what that solution might look like, she one day grabbed the now dusty notebook and began to read. She was convinced: her lack of bias was the best foundation for finding the answer. And so, she delved into the literature, structured her findings, and spent countless nights – after her duties as a professor – working on a way out of the tangled mess of her time.”
Noah remembered those years – years that felt to many like a bad dream from which one could never wake. Extremist parties, terrorist attacks, wars that resembled orgies of violence more than strategic conflict, ultra-wealthy moguls undermining democracies, and looming above it all, the Damoclean threat of nuclear war.
He had to strain to recall what it had felt like to grow up in such a time. What it meant to live without hope, to assume that the world as it was would simply continue. In order to make it safer again, one had to resort to the very tools that had caused the crises in the first place. A bleak world.
And yet – and he liked the thought – from that bleakness, a new idea had emerged. An invention that gave humanity one last chance.
He kept reading:
“After a full year of painstaking work no one could know about, and for which she dared not expect any recognition, she had completed her project. She had not only conceived the solution but tested it repeatedly, eliminated all doubts, and finally composed an eighty-page manuscript. But now the question arose: Should she go public with it?
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- Waldemar Schwarzkopf (Author), 2025, May We Trust, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/1668934
