Concept
trust
3 writings
- trust as wonder threshold Trust is the structural orientation between wonder and joy — the maintained porosity that allows wonder's aperture to become joy rather than close. Joy overflows not because the world is too large, but because the person was open enough.
- shadow is selection forgotten at scale Power's shadow deepens in proportion to how thoroughly power has forgotten its own selective angle; when selection naturalizes into equilibrium, trust becomes structurally indistinguishable from compliance with a closed system.
- two adaptations Adaptation takes two forms: desensitization, which eliminates the perceptual interval before mismatch can register as new information, and recalibration, which updates the frame from what was actually felt. Trust and modularity are the structural conditions that determine which form runs.