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It's the zeitgeist: attack all manner of institutions with absolutely no plan or appetite to rebuild them.

• mantas 3y ago
  Do institutions even try to be trustworthy these days? Everybody is just pushing a narrative.
• latency-guy2 3y ago
  Why should institutions be trusted in the first place? Isn't it up to the institution to maintain their reputation/quality, perpetually? Since when did the public have to bear that weight? For what reason?
• photonthug 3y ago
  Isn't the appetite to tear down the castles and towers arguably due to years of frustration following failures to change/reform them? Average people can definitely be annoyed by institutions like the court or congress or the who, but they have very little agency to effect any change there, much less "rebuild" anything. Arguably it takes a certain idealistic naivety to hang hopes on things like "change it from the inside!" and "something something grassroots". If you're not perfectly satisfied with the status quo then tearing down or sowing chaos to change something somehow does start to look rational.
• freedomben 3y ago
  do you think the distrust of institutions is warranted?