Americans don't trust each other anymore
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Americans don't trust each other anymore
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Re: Americans don't trust each other anymore
#2How does this spill over into our trust of digital currencies like bitcoin, litecoin, and others?
Re: Americans don't trust each other anymore
#3And who could blame them. As an outsider who didn't grow up in the U.S. but has spent the past year living here, people are generally amiable and friendly but will take advantage of you for a mile if you give an inch. Rabid consumerism, shows of status, workaholism and an overwhelming feeling of fuck you got mine seems to pervade the collective psyche because you can't really lean on others (save for a few nonconformists).
Re: Americans don't trust each other anymore
#4How does this spill over into our trust of digital currencies like bitcoin, litecoin, and others?
Probably makes it worse. If you tell people the currency doesn't leave a paper trail then they'll worry about people scamming them or screwing them over in some way, shape, or form.
Re: Americans don't trust each other anymore
#5And who could blame them. As an outsider who didn't grow up in the U.S. but has spent the past year living here, people are generally amiable and friendly but will take advantage of you for a mile if you give an inch. Rabid consumerism, shows of status, workaholism and an overwhelming feeling of fuck you got mine seems to pervade the collective psyche because you can't really lean on others (save for a few nonconform…
I believe TyphonBlue's Theory of Apexuality[0] could also explain a lot of this:
> The third term is ‘Apexual’. This is a portmanteau of ‘Apex’ and ‘sexual’ and refers to a male-bodied individual who derives its primary identity from its position within a status hierarchy rather then a positive relationship with other male-bodied individuals.
[...]
> In light of that can you actually trust apexuals to have the best interests of the male-bodied at heart even if they are male bodied themselves?
[0]: http://www.genderratic.com/p/1140/patriarchy-1-0-and-the-ape...
Re: Americans don't trust each other anymore
#6How does this spill over into our trust of digital currencies like bitcoin, litecoin, and others?
Probably makes it worse. If you tell people the currency doesn't leave a paper trail then they'll worry about people scamming them or screwing them over in some way, shape, or form.
That point raises, I believe, the question of what exactly is motivating these digital currencies' adoption, assuming that the strongest economic power has a growing rate of social distrust.
Re: Americans don't trust each other anymore
#7How does this spill over into our trust of digital currencies like bitcoin, litecoin, and others?
Probably makes it worse. If you tell people the currency doesn't leave a paper trail then they'll worry about people scamming them or screwing them over in some way, shape, or form.
No paper trail? But that's what the Bitcoin mechanism is -- a way of publicly recording all transactions!
Re: Americans don't trust each other anymore
#8There has been over a decade of propaganda telling people not to trust each other... all post-9/11 messaging intended to create insecurity in the population.
Re: Americans don't trust each other anymore
#9There has been over a decade of propaganda telling people not to trust each other... all post-9/11 messaging intended to create insecurity in the population.
If you see something, say something.
Re: Americans don't trust each other anymore
#10Americans also live in a much more diverse and accepting society than they did 40 years ago. Let's give it some time, hmmm?
Articles like this make me peevish. I really dislike articles that glorify the 1950s-1990s, in anyway, without acknowledging what a strange time it was. Post-war America deserves far more criticism than it ever receives; I often think this is because boomers have a hard time criticizing the era they grew up in.
Citing a similar poll from the 1970s is a brief glimmer into a period that wasn't actually that long ago. Did people from the 1970s actually trust each other more, or did they just say that they did? What about the 1920s? The 1870s? The 1840s? Did Americans trust each other more then?
Ecclesiastes 7:10