Trust can be deliberately destroyed to enable domination.

Evidence

Anthony Pagden, focusing on Spanish rule in eighteenth-century Naples, describes the ways in which trust can be intentionally destroyed for the purpose of domination. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 92

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the reader’s Hardin thesis about observable constraints — here the inverse: intentional destruction of observability/mutual trust as an instrument of rule. Could connect to Saramago’s blindness as imposed, not accidental.
• QUESTION: How exactly did Spanish rule in Naples destroy trust, and could that mechanism map onto the government’s quarantine and violence against the blind in Saramago?