I think the stems from the fact that everything is just so hard to grok nowadays. A good example, the Fukushima Nuclear disaster and the decision to release th

I think the stems from the fact that everything is just so hard to grok nowadays. A good example, the Fukushima Nuclear disaster and the decision to release the water into the sea. I mean, the whole accident was caused by negligence and corruption, not really a tsunami, and now the same agencies, at least the same types of agencies who allowed the negligence that caused the meltdown to happen, are likely the same agencies telling people it's safe to dump all the treated water into the sea. What are average people supposed to do here? They were lied to, or at least let down in step 1, and now in step 2, just trust the institutions ? Deepwater Horizon, another disaster, really shouldn't have happened, do we just trust the institutions that it's all fixed? In my opinion, the world is too complex now, we're struggling to understand it. To be clear, I'm absolutely not trying to argue that institutions shouldn't be trusted, but we should be able to see why people have lost trust.