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25 sats \ 5 replies \ @kepford 21 Jul 2023
The death of trust is right. No matter what you think about the origins people in powerful and influential positions abused the trust of the public in ways that can't be repaired. Now they complain about it but they created this mess they complain about. The whole event opened the eyes of many.
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1 sat \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 OP 21 Jul 2023
I no longer accept anything I hear from the government at face value. Nothing. It's pretty sad, and it will complicate things in a real emergency.
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59 sats \ 1 reply \ @clr 21 Jul 2023
By the way, what you are experiencing is just healthy skepticism and critical thinking, and that's a good thing. They have brainwashed the people into believing that thinking for ourselves is dangerous. Please don't fall into their trap.
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54 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 21 Jul 2023
Yep, you should always follow the incentives. Rational thought will lead you to question those who seek power and control over others.
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @clr 21 Jul 2023
If you are thinking about things like earthquake, volcano, flood, hurricane and so on, people will still trust the government for updates and guidance if they don't have a better alternative. There still remains a lot of trust in government. I don't buy the narrative that people are not trusting governments. It's not like Washington D.C. is in flames, politicians are hanging or anything like that. Compliance is at all time highs.
Aside from those, what would be a "real" emergency that cannot be solved without the government? It seems that all "emergencies" are created by governments themselves. That's the point of the article you posted. Governments appear to be fabricating "emergencies" and "issues" in order to justify their existence, precisely because of a lack of major real problems. It's an autoimmune disease.
Fear not the demise of governments, for we already have better coordination mechanisms. They are called Bitcoin and Nostr. We just need to make sure that they are ready in time to replace the existing governments.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 21 Jul 2023
Exactly. That is the deeper issue.
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54 sats \ 1 reply \ @mmirate 21 Jul 2023 freebie
The reasoning here is upside-down. The problem is not that people have lost faith in institutional authority - rather it is that people have maintained and begotten such faith in our institutions for so long, even as they have continued to rot away.
Putting so many people back in touch with reality has been one of the silver linings of this whole mess.
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 21 Jul 2023
Exactly right. I'm speaking from the perspective of those in power and influence. They are wringing their hands in worry because a few percentages more of the public don't beleive everything they say.
One of the bigger issues is that most still trust their team (blue/red) but not the other team. They haven't figured out neither can be trusted. They haven't figured out that the ruling parties have more in common with each other than us.
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