Readers may wish to ponder the implication that a high-trust society can somehow be maintained unilaterally, simply by not caring about the number of people who violate that trust, and who do so repeatedly, whether in ways that are audacious or just wearyingly routine but nonetheless degrading.
As if pretending not to mind the evaporation of civilised, reciprocal standards – and pretending not to be alienated by primitive behaviour – somehow means that said behaviour isn’t there and didn’t happen. And that it won’t happen tomorrow, or the day after. And with ever greater boldness.
As if a high-trust society means letting antisocial fuckers act with impunity.
On high-trust societies and those who struggle with the concept.
Try ignoring the savages on the streets of Mogadishu, Minnesota.
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from the link:
“High Trust society is when you keep leaving your wallet unattended and buying a new one no matter how many times it gets stolen. Just keep trusting no matter what and then you have high trust”
where is this trust?
one ‘trusts’ that the wallet will be repeatedly stolen. see how that works? just a question of *where* the trust lies.
‘l tust you will lie about that’ says the attorney to his client. m’kay? y’all missing the point of *precisely* whats being trusted. and who doing the trusting and very DEFINITION of trust.
fixed it for ya.
“High Trust” is a concept that works in spite of human nature in places like Japan, which has a highly homogeneous society that take it’s social taboo stigmas very, very seriously. In the west, however, outside of smaller ‘tight-knit’ communities, we are increasingly seeing casual nihilism, and a utilitarian “the ends justify the means’ mentality..or ethos fostered through various social outlets.. “High Trust” has become a throwaway phrase the con-men use to cool their marks. Its almost like promoting the worst aspects of hood rat ‘culture’ in music and media, while voting in generation after generation of slimy, self-absorbed sociopaths has had a degenerative effect upon our our western social fabric. Perhaps well never know..
“like Japan, which has a highly homogeneous society that take it’s social taboo stigmas very, very seriously”
Japan is a zero-immigration society. That is why they are highly homogeneous.
They have a saying: “The nail that sticks up, must be hammered down.”
It is Japanese culture only or get-the-fuck-out.
This is why the Japanese are working so hard on robots.
They want to replace all of the foreign workers that they have to tolerate now in Japan, with robots.
They will never reach zero foreigners, but they are going to try and try.
“..Japan is a zero-immigration society. That is why they are highly homogeneous.”
Absolutely. And that is the point. The US needs controlled immigration, but debateably, the Japanese don’t. In time that will likely change though, as like other Asian countries, their birthrate has fallen well below ‘replacement’ minimum. If and when the time comes, and they are forced to open the gates, rest assured that their immigration policies will be much wiser and more.. nuanced.. than the west. They certainly aren’t going to allow ‘low-trust’ third-world trash to clog their immigration offices via asylum claim abuse on the promise that they’ll breed like roaches, submit to being worked like farm animals, and vote (themselves more benefits) to keep their left in power indefinitely there..
“As if a high-trust society means letting antisocial f###ers act with impunity.”
free speech for me, but not for thee?
High trust societies only happen when the society demands/enforces said trust. There is no such thing as a perfectly high trust society — we live in a fallen world after all — but we can attain one that is decently so.
“As if a high-trust society means letting antisocial f**kers act with impunity.”
Noticing would be racist, David. I mean, isn’t rampant shoplifting, widespread fraud and violent street crime a small price to pay if it shows our virtue?
Toxic empathy is so nauseatingly tedious, yet it is at the core of the modern left’s ethos..
Bingo!
It took 2 Trudeaus to fully destroy the high trust society that used to be Canada, and reveal all the corruption underneath.
When you live in steel skyscrapers, you become a height rust society…
OTOH … we collect $$$$$ tolls … to keep our exposed steel bridges painted.
The seven state-owned bridges require a regular toll of $8.50.
The Golden Gate Bridge requires a minimum toll of $8.75 for FasTrak users. If you pay after receiving an invoice (without a FasTrak account), the Golden Gate Bridge toll will be a minimum of $9.75.
Gotta keep the rust low.
So California is a high rust society.
Frank Sinatra: “I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps.” Neil Young: “I have just the place!”
There are so many examples of how America has gone from a (relatively) high trust society to a low trust society. However … one visually stark example of this is our BART stations. The turnstiles as originally designed and employed since the 1970’s were waist-high electronic devices that opened two small plastic paddles when a valid ticket was fed into the card reader. Other than this low turnstile … the entire entrance was open and visually pleasing. It was modernisms answer to the nasty looking steel grates and gates on the Chicago and NYC subways.
Despite the fact that anyone could simply slide right over the top of these gates with minimal effort … few people did. And no, there were no transit police stationed at entries or exits.
But guess what happened? We went from high trust to low trust in the blink of an eye. What caused that blink? George Floyd. The George Floyd race pimps caused CA to essentially “legalize” shop lifting. Why? “Systemic racism” or something. Black folk have to STEAL … as they are incapable of gainful employment (evidently). And pay transit fares? Ha! Anyone who doesn’t look ‘white’ gets a free pass.
But … funny thing … BART, which already operates at a massive yearly deficit … went even MORE broke. And as the dregs of society rode BART for free … normal people stopped taking BART. So what was BART finally forced to do? They have erected full height steel and plexiglass gates and grates … to keep the thieving dregs off BART. Yeah … and it’s still not working. Nor is BART. But it has erected a stark monument to the degeneration of our culture … a prison like enclosure of our “modern” transit system.
I miss our childhood.