Cohesion and trust check government power, not merely establish social order
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- Trust in government is not a major working factor in modern society (similarity 0.87)
- Distrust of government is easier to ground rationally than trust (similarity 0.87)
- Dominant powers benefit from engineering their subjects’ inability to trust (similarity 0.83)
- Any durable trusting society must be an aristocracy of coded conduct (similarity 0.83)
- Cooperation can operate independently of trust (similarity 0.83)
- Anarchy can generate social cohesion which effective government destroys (similarity 0.83)
- Trust alone cannot explain modern social order. (similarity 0.82)
- Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.82)
- Social stability must never come at the cost of necessary change or social justice (similarity 0.82)
- Trust is conceived both as one societal element and as social order itself (similarity 0.82)
- Anarchy can engender trust while effective government destroys it (similarity 0.81)
- An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted (similarity 0.81)
- Trust in rulers is a realistic assessment of irreversibility, not psychic compulsion (similarity 0.81)
- Institutional and legal constraints give people strong external incentives to be trustworthy (similarity 0.81)
- Visible honesty signals are what keep cooperation stable in populations (similarity 0.81)