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.
Sometime between the age of 8 and 12 I remember I started to question authority, not government of countries specifically, but just the concept of authority.
I always felt like teachers were against me for some reason… frequently I got marked for “bad behavior” and weren’t allowed to go on trips…
Then I learned about Tiananmen… for context my family were all born in China… my older brother who actually went through like 7th grade in China was so shocked learned about it in the US and I remember him telling me to look it up online…
Then I remember my mom started telling me about the One Child Policy and how I was the one born against policy…
So yeah… you can see how I’m starting to get very skeptical of things
Then I learn about all the bribery stuff in US Congress, SuperPACs… etc…
US Cops shooting people and getting away with it…
The infamous Gun Trace Task Force of Baltimore
The Great Firewall of China and the censorship…
Then my “arc” completed when I was 17 and got arrested on false accusations of “agravated assault” when I was acting in self-defence against a racist bully in school… even the school admin sided against me and tried to expell me…
So by age 18, I distrust governments… and authorities in general…
Especially the PRC Government and the US Government
I mean distrusting authorities is a very American thing to do…
(Distrust PRC significantly more intensely because of the fact that they tried to end my existence)