Trust can be systematically dissolved while a society is preserved

Evidence

What his treatise provides is, in fact, a carefully considered list of the necessary macroand micro-conditions for dissolving trust within a society while still preserving its condition as a society. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1759

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s Hardin/Luhmann thesis — this is an early-modern list of the exact conditions under which mutual monitoring and trust collapse, and pairs with the blindness epidemic as a second case of systematically destroyed trust. — connects to: Falling social trust creates a void that instrumentarian power fills with certainty. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1224; Groups channel their history through trusted non-state institutions when the state disavows it — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1047