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Aha. And so here we are, watching something we thought was steadfast float slowly out to sea. The ability to let people say shitty things without trying to shut
by abathur 7y ago
Aha. And so here we are, watching something we thought was steadfast float slowly out to sea. The ability to let people say shitty things without trying to shut them up is one more thing we need trust for.
(For example, we need to be able to trust that they have a sincere opinion and aren't paid shills for a corporate lobby on a PR mission to waste our time, emotional energy, column-inches, and attention.)
If you feel a growing sense of dread as it retreats, it's a good time to consider whether you know others who have expressed a similar sense of dread that other things in our world have come unmoored, and whether they could use some help keeping them tied down.
- AstralStorm 7y agoTrust has a problem of root. You cannot exactly trust even your parents these days. They are more often wrong than not. Grandparents, even more so. Even society is shown to be untrustworthy, and the social processes of science. Thus some reactionaries want to replace trust with authority. Or markets, which is another name for social proof, but with much less transparency. Ultimately the other parts of trust are verification and reputation, which are both not unassailable. (Sybil style attacks, bribery, institutional and social biases.) But, our saving grace might be simpler: cooperation without trust is possible and might be as efficient if things get bad enough.