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…surveillance can’t cohabitate with trust, the slow-to-bud, immeasurable essence of close relations that thrives only outside the panoptic gaze.
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By choosing surveillance-based attention, we are ushering in an age of mistrust. This is the first collective loss we will suffer by cultivating a culture of distraction.
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If there isn’t at least the possibility for choice, even for a potential betrayal, there can be no trust. To trust is to be vulnerable… – Trudy Govier
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By trusting someone, we also acknowledge his or her capability to be trusted in some respect.
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Trust is an openness to something more, distrust a shutting down.
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If you generally doubt people’s trustworthiness, you aren’t likely to take risks on cooperating with or even knowing others further. This is why trust, once lost, is so hard to rebuild.
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If you are trusting, you win some encounters and lose others, but in the long-term, you gain much more than you would from distrusting, which results in lost opportunities… – Russell Hardin
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Children need space to experiment in a world of mutable selves, relations, and institutions, and they need to be given the chance to build… ‘active trust’ born of mutual disclosure. – Anthony Giddens
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Without safety nets of trust or secure traditions… relations crumble into obsession and compulsion. – Anothing Giddens
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In a society built on trust, we may never fully know one another, but we will be given the opportunity to reveal ourselves willingly, over time.
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