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   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  ksahitya1987 | Aug 20, 2021 |    ) ecataldi | Dec 31, 2020 | by Pete Buttigieg 2020 W.W. Norton & Co. 4.0 / 5.0 Former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana and Democratic presidential candidate sees an erosion of trust as part of the reason for the compromised integrity in the USA. In the overview, Buttigieg explains why trust is so important for us to move forward, and is what keeps us divided. Buttigieg shares lessons he learned about trust, while serving in the military, and how the tRump Administration has eroded so much of our government and our trust in each other. "Presidents after the tRump era will need to return to the basics when it comes to trust and accountability." "BY 2020, each of the most important means available to the WH for building trust- transparency, responsibility, vulnerability, truth- telling, predictability, reciprocity- had been not just abandoned but torched." Buttigieg brings some important issues and questions to light, and I do believe our ability to trust others has eroded because if the supporters of tRump, following his inciting and baiting. I will finish, with this quote, that says it all..... (Fox News. Roger) "Ailes recognized what the purveyors of conspiracy theories often do: that by playing to an audiences distrust of others, you can more easily secure their trust in you. Getting people to trust you through consistent, hard-won credibility is difficult and time consuming. But a shortcut to gaining trust is simply ask people to join you in distrusting someone else.....the lucrative logic of opinion media is that whomever you do capture in their way, will become less and less willing to hear outside voices, and more and more dependent on yours." (  ) over.the.edge | Nov 9, 2020 | ) joyblue | Oct 31, 2020 | no reviews | add a review
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"In Trust, Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how trust will be essential in order to face the unique challenges of the decades ahead. Trust is essential to the foundation of America's democracy, asserts Pete Buttigieg, the former presidential candidate and South Bend mayor. Yet, in a century warped by terrorism, financial collapse, Trumpist populism, systemic racism, and now a global pandemic, trust has been squandered, sacrificed, abused, stolen, or never properly built in the first place. And now, more so than ever before, Americans must work side by side to reckon with the monumental challenges posed by our present moment. Interweaving history, political philosophy, and affecting passages of memoir, Buttigieg explores the strong relationship between measures of prosperity and levels of social trust. He provides an impassioned account of a threefold crisis of trust: in our institutions, in each other, and in the American project itself. Today, these perilous patterns of distrust have wreaked havoc on nearly every sector of society, as Americans increasingly resent the very government that needs to be part of the solution. With the internet and partisan television networks acting as accelerants, Americans jettison any sense of shared reality, lose confidence in experts and scientists, and cope with the grim national tragedy of a pandemic that has only further exemplified the lethality of distrust. Buttigieg contends that our success, or failure, at confronting the greatest challenges of the decade-racial and economic justice, pandemic resilience, and climate action-will rest on whether we can effectively cultivate, deepen, and, where necessary, repair the networks of trust that are now endangered, or for so many, have never even existed. An urgent call to foster an "American way of trust" at this painfully polarized juncture in the nation's history, Trust is a direct reckoning with the prevailing corruption of social responsibility. Yet refusing to give in to the despair that threatens our foundations, Trust seeks to inspire Americans to build a powerful movement that will define all of us in the years to come"-- No library descriptions found. |
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This turned out to be a good one. As you can see from the title, it’s about trust, mistrust and misplaced trust and the consequences of it all. The information that the Mayor presents here isn’t something new or what we’ve unheard of, but seeing it all put together, with historical as well as contemporary contexts and his own personal anecdotes, it makes for a thought provoking read. In his well spoken words, he emphasizes the importance of having trust in facts, in science, in our fellow human beings - to have a successful and well functioning society. And how decades of being lied to, presented with endless amounts of sensational misinformation, politicization of important issues like climate change etc have all now come to head in an election year ravaged by the pandemic, where both the government’s incompetence and unscientific ideology driven inaction and a significant amount of the population’s mistrust in basic facts and misplaced trust in a lying authoritarian leader - have led to more than 200K deaths with no clear end in sight.
As I said above, this is nothing new. But in these very cynical times where it feels like every fight for equal rights and protections, just basic healthcare and some competence from the government is too much of an ask - it’s important to remember that we need trusted sources to move forward, and people who believe in the same inclusive and equitable future should trust each other, and fight together for the solutions. All in all, it’s a well written, engaging and incisive read and I would definitely recommend the audiobook. (