Decius wrote:
]Jello wrote:
]] OOH OOH I read this! :) I enjoyed it, for all the same
]] reasons as the reviewer. I understand he continued this
]] line of thought in The Great Disruption.
]
] This sounds interesting, but also another book that I don't
] have time to read. :) What does he view as the primary sources
] of degrading trust in the American economy?

You can read 38 sample pages from The Great Disruption at Amazon.

I should point out that neither of these books are newly published. I have all of Fukuyama's books (End of History, Trust, Great Disruption, Our Posthuman Future) and have talked about them previously. I logged Trust because 1) I felt it was relevant to the two prior log entries from the Sunday NYT; 2) I realized that I had never logged it before.

You should read the two NYT articles before they disappear into the for-pay archive. One is about how Americans have lost their sense of filial responsibility. The other is about how Iraqis divide the world into two groups: kin and strangers. The article talks about views on nepotism in business and government, but it also explains why Iraqis prefer to marry cousins.

On further consideration of that last point, I began to wonder if the apparently wild popularity of Friendster was just a Western peculiarity. I doubt that the service would be of much interest to Iraqis, anyway.

RE: Trust: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order