"we experience a fundamental assault on our right to live, on our personal sense of worth, and further, on our sense that the world (including people) basically supports human life."
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"Janoff-Bulman (1992, pp. 5–6)...identifies three such beliefs as central to one-place trust: “the world is benevolent;” “the world is meaningful;” and “the self is worthy.”"
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"According to Husserl, all of our experiences and activities incorporate anticipation. He uses the term “protention” to refer to an anticipatory structure that is integral to our sense of the present."
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"Husserl adds that localized experiences of problematic uncertainty and doubt arise against an enduring backdrop of habitual certainty." You might doubt whether a light in the distance is really an oncoming train, but you don't doubt that there is ground under your feet.
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In Husserl's view, there is an underlying, invisible substrate of trust, more a disposition than a cognitive belief, that allows us to think and act at all without being paralyzed by fearful doubt.
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"For the most part, such expectations do not take the form of explicit judgments. They are symptomatic of a habitual, practical confidence, a feeling of being more generally “at home” in the world."
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"It is against this backdrop that we have more localized experiences of problematic uncertainty and doubt, and make explicit judgments to the effect that event p will, will not, or might not arise."
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"Hence a non-localized sense of confidence or certainty is not itself an attitude toward anything specific but something that is already in place when such attitudes are adopted."
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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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