The Collapsing Social Trust With Ed Dutton

The Two Mikes spoke with Professor Edward Dutton, an Englishman based in Finland. He works as a professor of evolutionary psychology and maintains a fascinating website, https://edwarddutton.com/. Professor Dutton researches, writes, publishes, and speaks about what he describes as “controversial” topics. In our conversation with him, Professor Dutton focused on the problem of “collapsing social trust”, which is a deadly threat to the survival of any established society. Communities that are genetically and ethnically similar tend to develop high levels of social trust among its members. Indeed, their societal strength is grounded in the absence of great et...