Public life · Institutions
Insolence is the last growth industry.
Trust in government, press, universities and clergy sits near record lows across the survey literature, country after country. Deference as a social instinct has essentially expired, and the comment section is the town square. Shamelessness, meanwhile, has become a strategy: the scandal is the marketing, the apology is a genre.
Gallup and Edelman trust indices · cross-national survey data, 2024–2026
Mishnah Sotah 9:15
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