Inner self-assurance enables calm anticipation of trust disappointments

Evidence

Experience of everyday life tells us that people, just like social systems, are more willing to trust if they possess inner security, if they have some sort of inner self-assurance which enables them to anticipate possible disappointments of trust with composure, without turning what is merely conceivable possibility immediately into grounds for action. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 280

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to Stevens’s suppression of disappointment in Never Let Me Go’s central theme of composure amid deferred hope.