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The only US institution that is still trusted at its 1950s level is the US military, and even that's losing a little trust (especially over the past 2 years). America is coming down from a high baseline of trust across the board. Military is the most trusted arm of government in the US? Countries where the most trusted part of government is the military isn't usually the happiest. Samo.
There's a certain amount of lying that the government can get away with, said Samo this week, but when the government is saying something is individually good but it's not, it's only collectively or politically good, the people can tell. Vaccines and pandemic measures. People want their government to lie to them a little, but the government can go out of that tolerance zone. Not only the government but even the representatives are not trusted to do their jobs. The beurocracies have gotten way worse since they were first started.
If I hear that in SF, I want to go buy shaving cream in a convenience store but it's locked up, I should just buy it online (not even online, but just on Amazon.) ‘What’s the point of an inconvenient convenience store?' Samo. That defeats the purpose of a city, people in a city are socialized in a deep way, they're more productive, we expect.
People trust a known expert, like a SM influencer, more than the medical establishment. We think that expert went to first principles. So many lies have caught up, like the ‘food pyramid’ which no one even knows where it came from. ‘Fool me once’ culture. Auren Hoffman. If you have more friends who trust this person, then it gets easier to follow them, if they read all the research and decide to inject themself with Ozempic, against government directive.
The internet has been rerouting to new sources of trust. People nowadays will do all their own research, talk to everyone, and then be like OK, all I need to do now is go to the medical institution and talk to this guy who is technically my doctor and get him to sign off on my list for my treatment. Why do you need that person? How long are we going to do that? That person doesn't have time for you. You can have a beurocracy that is stupider than the sum of its parts, because the sum may just know things that are inadmissable in the official record. We need to open beurocracies for individuals who do all this work themselves. Samo.
The experts have just been so wrong on almost all the big issues. They still have so much power, when they've been so wrong. Big investors don't keep their power if they've been wrong for a decade.
America is currently kind of a seniority system. The Congress average age is one year more almost every year.
The idea of a happy childhood is stronger in the US than in Korea or something. They want kids who are well-educated because it's good for them and proves the parents were good parents. But even in the US, formal education is overvalued, coreographed resume during school to get into college.
The only youth culture that is available is the culture online, because parents don't allow their children out of a certain distance (as once they were allowed). And even there, parents are perhaps expected to maximally monitor. Tolerance for danger has dropped, perhaps too much. Too into safety.
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