Inspired by a few other posts and memes flying about. When I was young movies and tbh real life you would come across old people telling you that can’t trust the gov. To keep your cash at home etc. tell em nothing.
I am feeling it. I always assumed maybe about 60 it will happen to me. I kinda linked it to idle minds or a cognitive decline but lack of trust for me has arrived a lot earlier and I think I can rationalise to myself it’s more based on the gov actions rather than my circumstances.
So wha do you think in the magic age number that trust in the gov erodes? I’ll start. 42.
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Not every generation is the same. Many old people where I live and today still seem to trust it a lot, while the ones from when you were a kid probably saw WWII and the Great Depression.
What I’m saying is, it’s less an age, and more what you’ve lived through.
I don’t honestly believe such a number exists, but also, I think the age aspect of it is almost or entirely irrelevant.
Exceptionally young, around 8 years old. Same goes for religious people lying to me.
I trust some parts of government to be useful. Like food assistance or healthcare are useful and should be expanded. I don’t trust that politicians will keep the useful parts useful though. Also gotta keep this in mind.
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I was around 12 and to this day I think that was the most corrupt student council we had.
Few months after 9/11 is when I figured it out so I was like 7 or 8
I was 16 on 9/11. I remember watching john Ashcroft the Friday before talking about how the Pentagon couldn’t account for billions of dollars. Then i wake up on Monday morning to the planes hitting the towers.
I stopped trusting the government sometime around there
As soon as I knew what a government was. Age 12ish
Took another 18 years for me to actually have articulated reasons why other than "feels*
For me, the second I understood what war really was, it was clear that governments are often evil and shouldn’t be trusted. That was probably around age 12.
For me, it was somewhere around 14. Maybe younger.
I was raised to trust neither the government nor law enforcement.
Good.
Not necessarily stop trusting it, but realize they’re either corrupt or incompetent… Or worse, both. Also, 35…
This depends a lot on where you live, under what kind of government, your socioeconomic background and the personality of your close friends and family.
I grew up in Argentina and I don’t think anyone believes they can really trust the government. Consensus among high school kids is that everyone is corrupt and exploiting legal loopholes is considered the norm.
Now I can’t say there was much of a privacy concern in my circles, in my experience, and that’s still the case today, decades later, in a totally different country. So yeah it depends a lot on a lot.
