The Pervasive Loss of Trust in Institutions

The idea of people who eat your children is a very important image. In the ancient world, we used to use these types of tropes for the people that we didn't know who they were. There's an interesting shift that happened, which is that now these types of images are used against our own elites. That seems like there is a shift. It means that if the normal traditional society tends to be suspicious of the stranger, now we're suspicious of our own,. Of the people that are powerful over us.

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