State-imposed cultural change can substitute honour-based hierarchy for trust-based community.
Evidence
What in effect this translation of cultural values achieved was the replacement of a virtuous society based upon the mutual trust of all its members by an aristocratic tyranny based on suspicion and self-regard, ‘arrogance and self-love’. In other terms, it replaced a society based on trust by one based on another, equally slippery concept: honour. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1781
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Relevant to the Saramago reading purpose: replacing mutual monitoring (trust) with vertical loyalty (honour) is a mechanism for the collapse into predation that blindness triggers.