the-trust-apocalypse-underlies-the-meaning-crisis

# The trust apocalypse underlies the meaning crisis We suffer not only the loss of shared beliefs but the breakdown of the conditions that make shared meaning possible at all: trust in others, in institutions, in traditions, in the very possibility of transformation. Having watched authority abused, we treat tradition as control and exemplars as suspects, and so become afraid to belong. The hunger for the sacred is then lived out with only individual cognition and propositional belief, the two tools least suited to it. Related: [[you-cannot-believe-your-way-back-to-the-sacred]], [[god-underwrites-relational-risk]], [[legacy-religions-fail-to-disclose-the-sacred]]