Trust fills the gap between formal structures and actual social reality

Evidence

Yet as Williams shows (this volume), such conditions cannot be assumed: formal structures and social reality have a distressing tendency to diverge, sometimes sharply. It is in the space of this divergence that trust must be wedged, and if /a fortuna does not help, then intentionality based on the as if game must be brought into play. The issue now is the extent to which intentionality can be invoked. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2833

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘divergence between formal structures and social reality’ is precisely where Saramago shows formal order collapsing when the informal substrate (observability) is removed. — connects to: Official pretense and private knowledge must diverge for social reality to function — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 95
• QUESTION: ‘as if game’ is invoked but not elaborated here; worth chasing what intentionality-on-the-as-if means as a trust mechanism.