Dominant powers benefit from engineering their subjects’ inability to trust
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- Power generates the will of the power-holder rather than serving it (similarity 0.88)
- An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted (similarity 0.87)
- Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.87)
- Trust in rulers is a realistic assessment of irreversibility, not psychic compulsion (similarity 0.86)
- Trust is merely evidence-based expectation while trustworthiness is motivational (similarity 0.85)
- Analyzing power requires simultaneously reworking both theory and historical method (similarity 0.85)
- Deceitful trust, once established, obliges its user into genuine trustworthiness (similarity 0.85)
- Institutional and legal constraints give people strong external incentives to be trustworthy (similarity 0.85)
- Trust necessarily stays moored in expectations and interests (similarity 0.84)
- Distrust is self-reinforcing because it starves itself of corrective information (similarity 0.84)
- Trust and trustworthiness are asymmetrical because only trusting carries significant risk of exploitation (similarity 0.84)
- Moral characters of trustworthiness can make people trust even against reason. (similarity 0.84)
- Revolutionary regimes attract blind faith, not grounded trust (similarity 0.84)
- Elite police rule requires admitting neutral masses to bolster itself (similarity 0.83)
- System trust is easier to acquire but harder to control than personal trust (similarity 0.83)