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Today we firmly depend on our powers of visual attention to understand our environment. The eyes have it, we’ve come to believe.
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…we aren’t the all-seeing species that we think. Perception of all kinds is really a construct and so only a rough and incomplete snapshot of the world.
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Our data bit-and-snapshot portraits are drawn and redrawn in codes that we do not comprehend. With one tainted trace, we can be quietly erased.
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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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In many ways, knowing when and when not to watch one another, physically and socially, is a difficult dance of attention.
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Surveillance is not holding us together but rather ensuring that we remain apart.
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