Americans have the infinite capacity to rally and fight selflessly when the cause is worthy.
, wherein one has a “generalized trust” that extends to “strangers, persons within one’s society with whom one has little personal familiarity. Social trust can thus be understood broadly as trust in society. But trust to do what? Social trust is trust that persons will abide by.” Social trust, writes Roberts, is a sense that “we are all in this together,” whoever “we all” may be, and without it, no law or policy or institution can be effective.
The paradox of this moment is that we’ve trained ourselves to be maximally selfish and catastrophically distrustful in the very eye of a health crisis that will be exponentially worse for all of us unless we can reinstate norms, reflexive selflessness, trust in science, and facts.
Americans have the infinite capacity to rally and fight altruistically when the national cause is deemed universally worthy—see: after 9/11, after Pearl Harbor, after earthquakes and hurricanes and floods. We regularly rush in to help strangers and children and the elderly. You can call that “social trust,” or just “the reason humans formed themselves into societies in the first instance.
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