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He says elite failures in Afghanistan, Iraq, the 2008 financial crisis, and COVID policy have destroyed trust in government, media, science, the military, and other institutions.
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Institutional Trust
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Jiang says no institution in America can bring people together anymore because media, science, the military, universities, government, and courts have all lost trust.
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Jay says the Dead Sea Scrolls story sounds suspiciously convenient for the birth of Israel but also appears authenticated by carbon dating and scholarly consensus, leaving non-experts dependent on institutional trust.
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Akela frames the political moment as simultaneous loss of institutional trust, libertarian growth, and renewed attraction to socialism or far-right nationalism among younger generations in the United States and abroad.
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Akela argues that the American political system has lost broad hope and that party establishments punish internal dissenters such as Thomas Massie, Justin Amash, and Rand Paul, which exposes deeper fragmentation across both parties.
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Akela frames the next issue as a spiritual and intellectual crisis among younger generations who show historically low institutional trust and may either awaken or collapse further into cynicism.
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Chinese society trusts test scores over teacher recommendations, qualitative measures, and institutions because Gaokao bypasses low institutional trust.
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Public distrust of government and institutions makes even good admissions reforms look like elite capture of education.
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"the bedouin goat uh herder is looking for for his goat and he gets to this cave and he takes a stone and he..."
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"written on them and there's like passages from the torah in them that are you know near direct it's like the earliest copies we..."
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"to the world and claim that this is jews reclaiming the land that they were at 2 000 years ago it's like some claim..."
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"this layer of trust in these kinds of institutions right if you doubt it i suppose you just have to think there's some sort..."
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"...faith in the system. It doesn't work for them anymore. And institutional trust among younger generations is at an all -time low. As a..."
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"And so, you know, it almost seems to me like we're polarizing more politically in the U.S. and perhaps in the West. We just..."
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"I think, unfortunately, you're right about that. I see that almost all hope has been lost in the political system at this point. There..."
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"...into it that are, statistically, they're at the lowest level of institutional trust. Are we going to see an awakening? Do you see hope?..."
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"Or will there be a sort of spiritual revolution or intellectual revolution?"
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"So, they came to believe that the problem was democracy itself. The problem is that people could not be reasoned with. Therefore, liberalism makes..."
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"And everyone was screwed, okay? Then you had COVID, right? COVID. Where the... The government, the elite, locked down the entire nation. Kids could..."
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"They're always lying to us, right? New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, they're just liars, okay? So, no one trusts the media anymore. Then..."
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