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The “clown world” works by mistaking the signs for the things, the metrics for the results, mistake words for biology, legislation for Law, debt for money.
Mistake the appearance of trust for trustworthiness.
“High trust societies” aren’t “high trust” because people “just happen to trust institutions”.
Forcing people to pretend to trust institutions achieves nothing.
You need the institutions to be trustworthy first — then to earn the trust of people with much effort.
It is precisely by baking skepticism towards institutions into the institutions themselves that you make institutions earn the trust of even the most skeptical citizens.
“You’ll have to trust me or I’ll make you pay ” can only lead to chaos
Mistake the appearance of trust for trustworthiness.
“High trust societies” aren’t “high trust” because people “just happen to trust institutions”.
Forcing people to pretend to trust institutions achieves nothing.
You need the institutions to be trustworthy first — then to earn the trust of people with much effort.
It is precisely by baking skepticism towards institutions into the institutions themselves that you make institutions earn the trust of even the most skeptical citizens.
“You’ll have to trust me or I’ll make you pay ” can only lead to chaos