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A comment on Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order (2019). Parent comment

Re:Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Internati... by t-3 on Friday January 07, 2022 @09:39AM (#29839586)
> A society needs trust to work.

Does it? Seems to me that most people don't, and never have trusted each other.

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Re:Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Internati... by JumpCrisscross on Friday January 07, 2022 @09:55AM (#29839766)
> Does it? Seems to me that most people don't, and never have trusted each other

Most people don't need to trust each other. The elites certainly do, at the very least, to respect the peaceful transfer of power. Democracies have, by design, lots of elites, so the coördination problem becomes (intentionally) more difficult.

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