Niall Ferguson, a Scottish-American historian, said low trust societies do not prosper. It is only high trust societies that go on to build strong institutions, and an edifice of rule of law in evolving an organic social contract. It has alienated the nation by burdening them under debt, and denying them the capacity and opportunity of social mobility. There is a piece of truth that we all must say and confess in national character, and humbly submit to it. This is how trust deficit can be overcome and our survival as a nation-state assured.
