Why Americans don’t trust each other | Todd Rose for Big Think

Why Americans don’t trust each other, with Todd Rose Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►► Up next ►► “Collective Illusions“: Why false consensus in society is so dangerous Should we trust people to make choices for themselves, or control those choices for them? As a free people in a free society, it is unacceptable that public institutions treat people as distrustful. If we continue to use the top-down control model, the consequences in terms of social trust will be too damaging. What we need to do is trust communities to make decisions for themselves, trust families to make decisions for themselves, and trust people, too. If you want a trusting society, you have to work to dislodge this top-down view of our institutions and give more power to people. We must insist that our institutions treat the public with trust. Read the video transcript: