Power holders can deliberately manufacture distrust conditions to secure control

Evidence

The second qualification, most evident from the example of Korea, is that it may be possible deliberately if deviously to create trust, which cannot always therefore be seen as a ‘by-product’, as Elster claims; and that at least one way of doing so is the way that Elster, after Tocqueville, does not believe is possible. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1666 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Totalitarian regimes can sustain themselves by deliberately cultivating pervasive distrust. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 467; Distrust of the powerful poisons trust among the powerless as well; Dominant powers benefit from engineering their subjects’ inability to trust (+11 more)

Related

• Trust can be deliberately created by fabricating distrust (similarity 0.91)
• Totalitarian regimes can sustain themselves by deliberately cultivating pervasive distrust. (similarity 0.87)
• Reducing distrust is different from generating trust (similarity 0.87)
• The KCIA exploited pre-existing societal distrust to consolidate power (similarity 0.83)
• Polite deception can actually build rather than undermine trust (similarity 0.82)
• Distrust strategies can become autonomous habitual routines (similarity 0.81)
• Systems that need distrust must also neutralize it to survive. (similarity 0.79)
• The mafioso profits from deliberately injecting distrust into markets (similarity 0.79)
• Political parties and armies can create trust by creating distrust (similarity 0.79)
• Totalitarian perpetrators relied on the public’s incredulity to shield their crimes (similarity 0.78)
• Distrust is self-fulfilling and cannot be invalidated by experience (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Trust can be deliberately created by fabricating distrust #corroborates (0.95) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1666
• Distrust strategies can become autonomous habitual routines #expands (0.78)
• Distrust is self-reinforcing because it starves itself of corrective information #expands (0.75)