My wife's uncle is one of the kindest, most selfless people I know and is probably a Trump supporter. I've spent a lot of time trying to reconcile that in my mind.
I have an aunt that believes the Earth is flat. Also a very sweet lady. But debating her, I realized how my knowledge that the Earth is round actually depends on a ton of context that doesn't actually live in my brain.
My perspective that the Earth is round is actually a belief, not a logical conclusion I have deduced, myself. I believe it because I trust in my education.
💯In 2011, I was at a banquet of business leaders at Blenheim Palace. Kofi Annan was the after dinner speaker (I was only there because I was working for him) and the topic was trust: he had an urgent warning that its collapse would mean chaos. The audience yawned through the entire presentation.
Damn 😕
I'm also reminded of Twilight of the Elites by @chrislhayes.bsky.social, which turned me on to the dangers of loss of trust in institutions, which was well underway by that time.
