System trust is so inevitable it escapes conscious reflection and debate.

Evidence

On the other hand, trust in the large reduction mechanisms is so inevitable that it does not need to be consciously perceived as a subjective activity which one can continue or drop, as in the case of personal trust. Thus system trust hardly becomes an open matter for public discussion, and, again, the fact that it is something latent helps maintain its integrity. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 231

Categorization

• XREF: The latency of system trust explains why Stevens never interrogates his own devotion — it is structurally invisible to him, matching Giddens’s claim that faceless commitments are unexamined.