It seems like so much of society is affected by mutual trust. Without mutual trust, inevitably that gap is made up with contracts, and processes, and laws, and

It seems like so much of society is affected by mutual trust. Without mutual trust, inevitably that gap is made up with contracts, and processes, and laws, and rules, because that's the only way people can coordinate on the same page. As the US becomes more and more divided on every level: ideologically, religiously, ethnically, culturally, etc this is only going to continue.