Anarchy can engender trust while effective government destroys it

Evidence

The Hobbesian problem arises from the assumption that anarchy, absence of enforcement, leads to distrust and social disintegration. We are all familiar with the deductive model which sustains and re-enforces that argument, but there is a certain amount of interesting empirical evidence which points the other way. The paradox is: it is precisely anarchy which engenders trust or, if you want to use another name, which engenders social cohesion. It is effective government which destroys trust. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1909

Categorization

• XREF: Directly engages the Hardin/Luhmann framework the reader is building — trust requires observable constraints, but here the claim is government itself corrodes the self-organizing observability anarchy provides.
• QUESTION: What is the mechanism by which government destroys rather than merely fails to create trust? This seems to invert the Hobbesian deductive model, and the boundary conditions matter.
• SEED: An essay contrasting why state enforcement can crowd out spontaneous trust-building versus when it enables it — using Saramago’s collapse (government breakdown → Hobbesian predation) as a counterpoint showing anarchy does NOT always engender trust.