Organized systems program distrust responses in advance, guarding against excess

Evidence

The person who distrusts no longer does so by going back to personal modes of reduction, such as personal animosity, hostility or safety precautions, but does so on the basis of the system, which has already programmed in advance the mode of behaviour for cases of disappointment, and guards the distruster against any excess. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 322

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Giddens’s point that institutional safeguards contain and program distrust just as they rely on trust — relevant to Stevens’s institutionalized deference. — connects to: Organizational incentives silence dissent inside firms riding unsustainable leverage — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 900