Societies contain a precarious balances between trust and skepticism, fear and safety.
I find many individuals who are distrustful of new people they see and interact with on a daily basis. Yet, they all live in societies where the most important thing in the world is based in an intangible trust we hold in the value of tiny pieces of otherwise worthless paper, or a numerical blip on a computer screen.
In this same way, humans know that matter is mostly emptiness, yet we still perceive it as solid.
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I am interested by the fact that we live in societies where without other people we would die in a very short period of time, however we still have trouble trusting those we don't know (and often those we do).
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