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> You gain people's trust by being consistently worthy of trust.

People trust repeated liers all the time. And truth telling institutions are rarely most trusted popular ones.

Indeed. It seems like the path to getting a lot of people to trust you is to tell lies so big that many can't believe someone would come up with a lie like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie

Whenever people complain about the state of their society, I can’t help but think they still really desire the current situation.

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