Our Real Crisis: Collapsing Trust

<![CDATA[Lately, I've seen a great deal of discussion about "high-trust" and "low-trust" societies. Some of that may be the result of the media I read, but more likely it is because people are reaching for language to describe something new to them. When everyday interactions feel brittle, surveilled, and adversarial, you do not need a sociologist to tell you something fundamental has shifted; you simply need words for what you already know.]]>