Past-oriented familiarity reduces complexity by assuming established patterns repeat

Evidence

True seen-through trust has one serious disadvantage in comparison with spontaneous trust. It demands more caution, more consideration from the truster. He does not trust the other person directly, but rather trusts the grounds on which trust ‘still works’. He is thereby continually conscious of other possibilities. What this means can be made clear with regard to the function of trust in reducing complexity. Seen-through trust fulfils this function less well than spontaneous trust. It places a greater burden of complexity on the actor and is thus psychologically more difficult. One would therefore be able to expect it only as a peak performance under particularly secure and continually sustained circumstances – for example, as the kind of behaviour associated with a higher educated class of society, or the upper levels of a bureaucracy, or with particular milieu, like political or economic spheres, where the effects on other areas of life can be relatively well controlled. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 256 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

In this latter case, ascertaining them would be in the service of history, so to speak; in the former case, it would provide material for the induction of timeless uniformities. About competition, for instance, we learn something from a great many fields—political science, economics, history of religion, history of art, and so on. The point is to ascertain from all the facts what competition is as a pure form of human behavior; under what circumstances it emerges and develops; how it is modified by the particular character of its object; by what contemporaneous formal and material features of a society it is increased or reduced; and how competition between individuals differs from that between groups. In short, we must ascertain what competition is as a form of relation among individuals. This form may involve all sorts of contents. But in spite of the great variety of these contents, the form maintains its own identity and proves that it belongs to a sphere which is governed by its own laws and which may legitimately be abstracted from other spheres or from total reality. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 202 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Forms of interaction retain identity across varied contents and historical settings — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 202; Seen-through trust reduces complexity less efficiently than spontaneous trust — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 256; System trust reduces complexity through explicit human decision processes, not naive familiarity (+3 more)

Related

• System trust reduces complexity through explicit human decision processes, not naive familiarity (similarity 0.86)
• Seen-through trust reduces complexity less efficiently than spontaneous trust (similarity 0.82)
• Trust reduces social complexity by replacing missing information with guaranteed security (similarity 0.81)
• Differentiated societies need more trust to reduce their greater complexity (similarity 0.81)
• The familiarity-trust balance shifts with social system complexity (similarity 0.80)
• Trust expands a system’s complexity potential and buys it time (similarity 0.80)
• Trust and law evolved from a common root into differentiated mechanisms (similarity 0.79)
• Trust functions by pruning the over-complex future to fit the present (similarity 0.79)
• Trust reduces future complexity where instrumental mastery cannot (similarity 0.79)
• Social complexity forces the shift from personal to impersonal, system-governed trust. (similarity 0.79)
• Trust reduces future complexity by committing to a determinate future (similarity 0.78)
• Trust increases experiential possibilities by reducing system complexity (similarity 0.78)
• System trust stays latent and beyond open discussion (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• System trust reduces complexity through explicit human decision processes, not naive familiarity #qualifies (0.60)
• Seen-through trust reduces complexity less efficiently than spontaneous trust #qualifies (0.55) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 256
• Forms of interaction retain identity across varied contents and historical settings #corroborates (0.50) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 202