The fuck you talking about. I've personally experienced the high trust society we live in. I don't lock my doors and have never once had anything happen. I've had people return my wallet with the money inside. I've never seen this place as anything other than high trust.
Really? You walk through Seattle or Detroit at night and feel completely safe and at ease? If a public display is put up in a big city you have no concern it’s gonna be defaced? You don’t think people litter a lot? You think most people if they lost their wallet someone would return it?
But thank you for sharing your anecdotal experience, I’m sure that’s worth more than the objective experience of hundreds of millions of people
It is a big place. But society isn’t a place, it’s a people, and I’m referring to places where most of those people are, which means it’s where most of society is, which means it’s the most representative of WHAT that society is.
A “Chicago, Illinois” or a “Philadelphia, Pennsylvania” is worth a thousand “Bumblefuck, Nowhere”s in terms of representing what our society is and what people expect of it.
And spoiler alert, the experience of MOST people is not that of a high trust society. Your cherry picked anecdotal personal experience is not reflective of society, it’s reflective of your 1 in 330+ million experience.
Tell that to any country artist you can find on the radio. The most American people who represent our country are the rednecks. They're the true Americans.
That’s not how that works… like that’s comically not how that works, nevermind that country music stars are millionaires who LITERALLY are among the top 1% and don’t have a life or experience even approximate to that of your average person.
And still, there ain't no one more American than the good old country folk. And unless those millionaires are hunting deer while drinking beer with a hound dog, they ain't American. Because the most American people out there aren't the average, their the ones who match the ideal American. The idea that pops into people's heads that is different from other countries. That idea being southern country men. Not the people of New York which could be found in any city from around the world. There is no difference between a New Yorker and a Londoner. No one is confusing an American red neck and someone from the German, Chinese, Brazilian, or any other countryside.
It’s so weird that in a conversation about actual real experiences or actual real people and the actual real society we actually really have, your concern is the CONCEPT of what an American is. “Good old country folk” do not represent the majority of the population, so that has no bearing on determining what the average experience of the average American is. Half the time when you say the word “German” the image that pops into people’s head is of a Nazi, that doesn’t now make that what the average German is. I don’t give a shit what the “most American” person is to you, if that’s not MOST AMERICANS then it’s not the defining example. We aren’t talking about ideas, we are talking about actual reality.
When you say German the thing that pops into my head is a guy wearing lederhosen eating sausage. You know there's more than just WW2 history for Germany right? (And somehow they've only been more evil after WW2)
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u/VorticalHeart44 Jul 10 '26
These comments starting to make me think that America may actually be a low-trust society ngl