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7. Well you need institutions of trust
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 03:08 AM
Jan 6

I have seen too much of actually sleazy manoeuvring to entirely agree. There is a lot of reason to distrust society and have a sense of injustice. It is how you decide whom to trust and why.

I trusted Fauci for instance. But even Fauci is humans are fallible. I don’t trust Zuckerberg however much he invests in medical research.

This is a little reductive especially given the last 15 years. I can’t say that the vapidly happy worldiview of corporate America’s shills or Steven Pinker is anything but inane.

Given mass incarceration and many other such things, a sense of injustice is to be expected. How you allot blame is where you have to assess reality and be ruthless as needed, but careful as well to avoid any collateral damage.

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