An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted
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- Power generates the will of the power-holder rather than serving it (similarity 0.89)
- Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.88)
- Dominant powers benefit from engineering their subjects’ inability to trust (similarity 0.87)
- Institutional and legal constraints give people strong external incentives to be trustworthy (similarity 0.85)
- Trusting values depend crucially on the information each party holds (similarity 0.84)
- Trust is merely evidence-based expectation while trustworthiness is motivational (similarity 0.84)
- Trust in rulers is a realistic assessment of irreversibility, not psychic compulsion (similarity 0.84)
- Analyzing power requires simultaneously reworking both theory and historical method (similarity 0.84)
- Trust necessarily stays moored in expectations and interests (similarity 0.84)
- Hegemony means tendential balance, not absolute class victory (similarity 0.83)
- The concept of ideology was born torn between historical relativism and universal truth. (similarity 0.83)
- Moral characters of trustworthiness can make people trust even against reason. (similarity 0.83)
- Common sense is ambiguous and conservative, resisting new truths (similarity 0.83)
- Totalitarian ideology becomes as untouchable as arithmetic to members. (similarity 0.83)
- Hegemony builds collective will by articulating differences, not erasing them (similarity 0.83)