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And as a result, mayors and city councillors and local authorities have a much higher trust level, and this is the third feature about mayors, than national governing officials.

So I'm going to talk about trust, and I'm going to start by reminding you of the standard views that people have about trust.

One's a claim: there has been a great decline in trust, very widely believed.

The second is an aim: we should have more trust.

And the third is a task: we should rebuild trust.

First the claim: Why do people think trust has declined?

But, of course, I can look at the opinion polls, and the opinion polls are supposedly the source of a belief that trust has declined.

Do you trust politicians?

Do you trust teachers?

Now if somebody said to you, "Do you trust greengrocers?

Do you trust fishmongers?

Do you trust elementary school teachers?"

And you might say, when you understood the answer to that, "Well, I trust some of them, but not others."

In short, in our real lives, we seek to place trust in a differentiated way.

We don't make an assumption that the level of trust that we will have in every instance of a certain type of official or office-holder or type of person is going to be uniform.

I might, for example, say that I certainly trust a certain elementary school teacher I know to teach the reception class to read, but in no way to drive the school minibus.

So if we've got those evidence in our ordinary lives of the way that trust is differentiated, why do we sort of drop all that intelligence when we think about trust more abstractly?

I think the polls are very bad guides to the level of trust that actually exists, because they try to obliterate the good judgment that goes into placing trust.

The aim is to have more trust.

I would aim to have more trust in the trustworthy but not in the untrustworthy.

In fact, I aim positively to try not to trust the untrustworthy.

And I think, of those people who, for example, placed their savings with the very aptly named Mr. Madoff, who then made off with them, and I think of them, and I think, well, yes, too much trust.

More trust is not an intelligent aim in this life.

Intelligently placed and intelligently refused trust is the proper aim.

Well once one says that, one says, yeah, okay, that means that what matters in the first place is not trust but trustworthiness.

And if we find that a person is competent in the relevant matters, and reliable and honest, we'll have a pretty good reason to trust them, because they'll be trustworthy.

I have friends who are competent and honest, but I would not trust them to post a letter, because they're forgetful.

But that's what we're looking for: trustworthiness before trust.

Calling the task rebuilding trust, I think, also gets things backwards.

It suggests that you and I should rebuild trust.

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