Established trust institutions breed indifference while new ones demand urgent trust

Evidence

Where such institutions already exist and happen to be operating successfully it is reasonable for individuals to feel a stolid indifference towards the exertions which have brought them into being and to see them merely as occasions for current confidence. But where they have yet to be established the need for direct and exigent forms of trust is altogether more importunate. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1144

Categorization

• XREF: The stolid indifference toward existing institutions contrasts with the total collapse in Blindness where no such institutions survive — the indifference is itself a luxury that observability underwrites.