Trust is the foundation of all human connections. From brief encounters to intimate relationships, it governs almost every interaction we have with each other. I trust my housemates not to go into my room without asking, I trust the bank to keep my money safe and I trust the pilot of my plane to fly […]
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sad legacy of this digital age, Rosaliene!
not sure of a way back to trusting each other
without unplugging the computers
controlling civilization 🙂
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I watched the video and I think that when she compared “trust” to risk taking, she was being the most accurate. Her examples had more to do with straightened economics than actual trust.
Trust should be engaged with kid gloves, entered into on tiptoe and never, ever, close the exit door behind you. Trust, faith, hope, love, promises, oaths – all intangibles that depend entirely on someone else’s performance. Unreliable, feel good concepts built on quagmires and surrounded by quicksands. Call it experience or observation… You trust someone to do something, they promise to do it and they do not or do the opposite: what then? What happens to your trust? It vanishes to be replaced with distrust. Would I engage such a weak concept that could so easily turn on me and there is nothing I can do about it? No. Again, I would replace such weak ideas with self empowerment – always my choice – and compassion rather than trust in which case, again, my choice is never dependent on another’s performance. Some day humanity may wake up to the fact that it is holding on to traditional concepts that have never worked and have absolutely no chance of ever working, i.e., of demonstrating the kind of power that can change the world for the better. My opinion, of course.
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I agree, Sha’Tara.
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Unfortunately I cannot watch the video. But I was very interested in Sha’Tara’s comment…………
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Hi, I had to go to https://theconversation-room.com/2019/01/20/why-technology-changes-who-we-trust/ to open the TED Talk video; it wouldn’t open from this page.
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Ah, thank you 🙂
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Thanks, Sha’Tara. I removed the video link from my blog to avoid confusion.
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Sorry about that, Pauline. I’ve removed the video link from my blog page.
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I also couldn’t access the video on this page.
And I also find Sha’Tara’s comment very interesting. 🙂
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Reblogged this on Guyanese Online.
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Thanks for sharing, Cyril. Have a great week 🙂
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Thanks for sharing, GuyFrog 🙂
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Rosaliene,
I thought the talk was interesting, but it occurred to me the main difference is trust in individuals versus trust in institutions. I agree with Sha’Tara in that other people can be unreliable, but you have to trust yourself to take disappointments in stride. There are reliable people out there, who don’t make promises they can’t keep.
In institutions, there’s no personal accountability–too easy to shift responsibility to others. It’s harder for individuals to get away with that.
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I agree, Katharine, that trust in our institutions is eroding for lack of personal accountability.
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Out of my personal experience, I’ve observed a couple of things. First, more relationships become virtual or, at least, electronic, rather than face-to-face, with repeated opportunities to interact with someone we see, hear, watch move, share anecdotes. Second, size matters. Dealing with larger entities than before, where size (and distance from them) causes a great power imbalance. A third one: the flood of information (some of it little more than celebrity gossip) makes it harder to take time to evaluate whether it is well-researched, biased, truth, or lies.
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Thanks for sharing your experience, Dr. Stein. I agree with all the points made. Technology has, indeed, transformed the way we communicate with each other, and not always in a good way.
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Very interesting Rosaliene, we certainly enjoy the content in all your posts. I think once you put expectations in their proper perspective the level of trust falls into place.
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Most definitely, Mike.
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Thank you for sharing this interesting video, Rosaliene. I guess it is our new reality, and we will have to learn to navigate through it because there is no other way. My father used to say ‘The times are always changing, but we always have a choice to remain human’. He didn’t speak about the digital age as he died in 1995, but the same applies 🙂
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Thanks for dropping by, Inese. Your father’s advice was sound and remains timely: “we always have a choice to remain human.”
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Exactly. Humans can survive in the world of technology just fine, if they remember who they are 🙂
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I agree with everyone’s comments. This was a very interesting talk.
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Thanks, Kathy 🙂
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Thank you for sharing!… trust, as in all else, is not built on words alone… 🙂
“A house that is built with patience, understanding and love will withstand the strongest winds of difficulties and conflict , a house built with a closed mind, insincerity and haste will collapse in a mere breeze of discontent.” (Larry “Dutch” Woller )
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Thanks for sharing your vision, Dutch. I totally agree 🙂
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True. Nice share.
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Thanks for sharing 🙂
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