Hollowed civic roles degrade into mutual suspicion and private self-interest between orders

Evidence

As a consequence, ‘the superior looked upon his inferior with anger, as one who thought himself to have been cheated of the veneration he believed to be his due, the inferior looked upon his superior as one who only thought himself superior, and in this way there was neither union nor love between the various orders’ (Doria 1973: 33-4). Each man became concerned, not with the welfare of his fellow citizens, but only with his own private ends or with those of his immediate kin. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1812

Categorization

• XREF: Direct parallel to the reader’s blindness scenario — when shared meaningful roles vanish, each order reads the other’s superiority claims as fraud, dissolving the union that underwrites social trust.