@EricRWeinstein: With respect to our institutio...
@EricRWeinstein
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Aug 21, 2025
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With respect to our institutions in the west, I can’t stop seeing the fundamental division as being into two basic groups:
A) HIGH TRUST: “Sure, they aren’t perfect; I myself like to think independently. But they are better than any of the crazy alternatives.”
B) LOW TRUST: “I don’t get how anyone still listens to legacy institutions. They are over.”
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I bring this up because what I don’t see is C)
C) DECLINING TRUST: “I cannot believe that our previously high quality institutions are being looted and/or crumbling at this rate. They are decaying from a very high height, so they are still working in many areas but they are already pure poison in others. We can’t live modern prosperous secure lives without them. So why are we exhibiting universal learned helplessness with respect to getting rid of the rot? Why the all or nothing thinking? What is going on? It’s like someone attacked us by convincing us to hollow ourselves out so you could knock us over with a feather.”
I’m in C). And I find it much more helpful to replace Left / Right with High Trust / Low Trust as our dominant political axis. High Trust roughly correlating with Blue and Low Trust roughly correlated with Red.
What are your thoughts on this?
Thx.🙏
A) HIGH TRUST: “Sure, they aren’t perfect; I myself like to think independently. But they are better than any of the crazy alternatives.”
B) LOW TRUST: “I don’t get how anyone still listens to legacy institutions. They are over.”
——
I bring this up because what I don’t see is C)
C) DECLINING TRUST: “I cannot believe that our previously high quality institutions are being looted and/or crumbling at this rate. They are decaying from a very high height, so they are still working in many areas but they are already pure poison in others. We can’t live modern prosperous secure lives without them. So why are we exhibiting universal learned helplessness with respect to getting rid of the rot? Why the all or nothing thinking? What is going on? It’s like someone attacked us by convincing us to hollow ourselves out so you could knock us over with a feather.”
I’m in C). And I find it much more helpful to replace Left / Right with High Trust / Low Trust as our dominant political axis. High Trust roughly correlating with Blue and Low Trust roughly correlated with Red.
What are your thoughts on this?
Thx.🙏
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