A trusting society requires citizens to surrender instinctive distrust.

Evidence

Trust - fede pubblica - depends, of course, upon security of expectation. But a trusting society must also be one in which men are prepared to surrender their instinctive habits of distrust, where they are prepared to ‘have faith’ in their neighbour’s word. And such a society must itself be capable of generating high levels of expectation in its citizens (Genovesi 1803: 80). — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1741

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines fede pubblica as security of expectation plus deliberate surrender of instinctive distrust — the deliberate suppression of suspicion that blindness forecloses.
• XREF: The ‘security of expectation’ framing is almost verbatim Luhmann’s baseline trust concept; and the surrender of instinctive distrust is exactly what Saramago’s blindness destroys. — connects to: Montesquieu defined civic liberty as the tranquility from trusting fellow citizens — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 359