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Events that we experience as a nation or society and are tested at every stage; The most important and dangerous of the fire, flood and earthquake events that are inevitable in the world are the social disasters that may come with or after them. In other words, our perspectives on each other and accompanying attitudes and behaviors after the disaster, and how this affects us in our closeness and solidarity, or has the opposite effect; They contribute to our alienation from each other.
Physical wounds inflicted by natural disasters heal, but psychological and social wounds are disintegrating and disintegrating in relationships and trust, which can only occur decades, decades later. It is true that the dead cannot be brought back, and this in itself is an irreparable loss, but we must understand that we still live in a mortal world; Everyone’s destiny is dust, and we cannot thwart God’s destiny when someone’s time comes.
Here we are talking about the loss of trust that occurs after such great disasters, when the foundation of society is dissolved, the insecurity that emerges shows all the signs of social erosion.
The demolition of dilapidated buildings and rebuilding them again is a matter that can be achieved, albeit arduous, but what should we do with the dilapidated social structure?
The most important reason for this erosion that is expected to occur in the aftermath of disasters is the loss of trust among people and the escalation of feelings of treason, and the elimination of this can only be done by investing in everything that would rebuild this trust. Trust is like honesty; One of the most indispensable elements in any definition of friendship, whether between people and each other, or between people and their state institutions that have won their trust and are still keen on that.
A friend above all is someone who you fully trust will be with you in difficult times, with whom you can easily share your secrets and you are confident that he will not reveal them in public, someone to whom you can entrust your life, your possessions, and what you love without ever thinking that he will betray you.
Why can not continue life without the principle of trust?
Trust is not always limited to friends or friendship; In fact, it exists and is present even in the minimum level of our social life, even if we do not evoke it in every situation, but it is in fact present throughout our movement in society. able to interact normally in society. For example, every morning we are confident that the tire of the car we are riding in will not explode, that the driver we do not know is a skilled and specialized person, and that the car is equipped to meet the conditions of the road while starting when pressing the accelerator pedal, so that we are confident that the drivers of oncoming cars know Traffic rules and they will not suddenly crash into the car we are riding in, and we also trust that the elevator rope we are riding will not break, and then it will not knock us down.
In fact, we don’t know much about any of this, and the driver driving us may not have a license, and he may have a license, but he didn’t sleep or got dizzy that day, and the car’s brakes may have failed. However, we act assuming that everything is going well, without knowing or even thinking that it is not, and we do not try to make sure of that before any social interaction we do, but rather we continue our daily lives without the need to question this fear in Any of the options offered to us.
And therefore; The idea of trust is embedded within an interactive system, which derives its importance from its historical depth, as the social and economic relations in the traditional society, which is characterized by simplicity and homogeneity, were mainly based on trust and ended with its loss. Trust was another concept of society’s customs, traditions, and solid values, and individuals and groups adhere to it either in harmony with the culture of society, or for fear of social exile. It has always been the basic tool for social cohesion, and the return from it to the individual and society has always been great. Will it reduce the intensity of conflict, give a sense of contentment, and gain people with their differences a place in society with the trust that they involuntarily give to each other every day.
As long as calculating the “coefficient of trust between people” in any society is one of the indicators of the strength of that society
Trust between people makes people look at each other with a view that is characterized by nobility, and give priority to the interests of others and public interests over private ones, which achieve social harmony, improve the general mood, reduce tensions and anxiety that have become a visible feature with the complexity of modern societies, and reduce the burden on institutions of social control such as security the judiciary and municipal, commercial, health and food oversight; This, in turn, makes these institutions able to achieve more prosperity and security for their communities.
Trust can be considered the first clause of the contract between any two parties, whether these parties are ordinary people in their daily interactions with each other, contracting parties in commercial business, or between people and their governments. This means having trust in a complex web of economic and social morals and values, at individual or institutional levels; Therefore, the ability of individuals to communicate and continue depends on the extent to which they share agreement on moral values and standards, and the extent to which they are able to subordinate narrow personal interests to broader collective interests, and these common values are only achieved with the presence of an element of trust.
Therefore, trust appears as a form of practicing mutual sacrifices in order to restrain selfish behavior that corrupts the cohesion of societies.
Without this sense of certainty, we really can’t even live our normal lives. Of course, as we go about our social lives we trust in some way many people we meet that we don’t know, but that trust is really trust within the limits of a particular relationship.
In matters that require a little more sharing, in situations where the distance is a bit more closed, we expect the people we take into our inner spaces to be a little more trustworthy, so we choose people who seem to deserve that form of trust, as if we are promoting them to a higher level in our social life.
There are those who like to play in everything that can destroy people’s trust in each other, which makes them in a state of constant lurking; This in turn makes life unbearable, and they do this through the media and constant statements that are all about treachery and the inability to let go of that selfishness.
Preserving trust can only come through preserving the resources and channels that will repair the lost trust relationship. These channels and sources of trust building are voluntary group actions and activities that create close acquaintances and social networks, such as: family, groups, associations, endowments and foundations.
The calculation of the “coefficient of trust among people” in any society has always been considered one of the indicators of the strength of society. In the recent period, there has been talk among American sociologists about the escalation of a social catastrophe in the last century, which is the feeling of loss of confidence.
These scholars linked trust with what they called “Social Capital” through the life cycle of trust, as it begins with the concept of human capital, which is based on the fact that capital has become embodied in the knowledge and skills that people possess, and not in lands, factories, tools, and machines. As is the case in the traditional economy. Sociologist James Coleman – who is one of the main theorists of social capital – confirms that an important part of social capital is found in the network of social relations and is linked to people’s ability to communicate with each other, which, according to him, is crucial and crucial to every aspect of social existence, not life. Economic only, and therefore the ability of individuals to communicate depends on the extent of their agreement on moral values and standards and their ability to subordinate narrow personal benefits to broader collective interests, and these common values are only achieved with the presence of the element of trust.
In his book “The Tunisian Personality”, the Tunisian sociologist “Moncef Wannas” monitors the phenomenon of the disintegration of trust between the Tunisian individual and institutions. Which produced the phenomenon of the spread of “paralysis” within institutions that exchange private benefits among themselves, and seek to dominate material, social and symbolic resources, and then the values of nepotism and nepotism prevail, and the phenomenon of adopting insults in confronting the opponent instead of dialogue, and preferring the method of circumventing problems in illegal ways.
Thus, maintaining trust can only be achieved through preserving resources and channels that will repair the lost trust relationship. These channels and sources of trust building are voluntary group actions, activities that create close acquaintances and social networks such as family, groups, associations, endowments and foundations. Reduction in these activities dries up confidence in society; Hence friendship, and society becomes composed of very isolated and lonely individuals who do not trust each other; No energy for initiative that would benefit humanity and create hope would emerge from such a society.
And when the thought that any person in a relationship can deceive you at any moment is so widespread that the person who talks to you is probably lying, that all people do bad things and cheat, everyone with this thought creates an excuse for repeat deception the same lies and tricks; And then the so-called “society of mediocrity” arises.
In this society, everyone starts keeping bad files for others, and when the files everyone keeps are opened for everyone when the time comes, it’s like a competition to see who gets to the bottom faster.
When mutual accusations begin, there is no sense left in determining who is right and who is wrong, who is dirtier and who is less dirty. And then everyone’s conscience begins to be polluted once allegations of corruption are used as a brutal political tool without examining their origin.
The ears of those who hear these rumors are polluted, the eyes of those who see them, the hearts of those who feel them, and the minds of those who think about them. And the accusation, which is seen as a simple way to overcome the opponent, turns after a while and strikes the whole society.
Unfortunately, evil within a society of mediocrity has the advantage of spreading and contagious, so there is a difference between evil that is committed and remains within one’s confines and evil that is committed openly (in the public sphere) to harm everyone.
An evil that can be tolerated in the individual sphere when it is done openly becomes a matter of course, and awakens the sleeping sedition, and after a time a large number of people see it as normal and do it openly and without shame.
This tendency leads to irreparable erosion, as not only do your enemies live in the decaying structure, you are there too, and when it collapses, everyone is under the building, and everyone dies.
