"there is also what we might call “one-place trust,” where one trusts other people in general rather than trusting a specific individual or group of individuals...one must first have *trust* in order to trust y to do z or to trust y more generally"
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This generalized sense of confidence or trust is, the authors claim, what is destroyed in trauma, along with the implicit belief that one has a future, that it makes any sense to plan for the future.
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It seems to me that the popularity of apocalypse narratives -- the widespread *felt sense* that there's no point in planning for anything ten years away (or even five years away!) because the world will have ended by then -- is due to this.
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Hot take: anyone pressuring you to lose this "basal security" or "sense of trust", or anyone saying it is morally obligatory to lack it, is a bad person who is literally traumatizing you.
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