If you are feeling adrift after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, it may be because your trust has been betrayed. Trust is our willingness to be vulnerable and allow someone else, or an organization or institution, to have power over us.
The Breach of the U.S. Capitol Was a Breach of Trust
How can we restore it?
January 11, 2021
Summary.
Trust is our willingness to be vulnerable and allow someone else, or an organization or institution, to have power over us. Trust consists of four components: competence, motives, fair means, and impact. Fundamentally, we agree to let an institution, such as the U.S. government, operate because we trust in its competence, its good motives, its fair means, and its positive impact on us. The January 6 attack graphically illustrated the cracks in all four of these.