00:00:00.000hello guys and welcome back to a bonus edition of maple serpent mayhem this is a short recorded
00:00:09.760video because i feel like sometimes i can't talk about all these things that i've been reading
00:00:14.720about and and kind of watching videos about and documentaries and little you know informative
00:00:21.720infographs and all the stuff about because you know when i stream i want to do the fun stuff
00:00:26.400like, you know, make fun of Jeets and stuff. So anyways, we're going to talk today because this
00:00:31.240has been kind of on my mind a lot lately, but we're going to talk about how we go, how we went
00:00:37.380rather from a high trust society to a low trust society and basically how society slowly unravel.
00:00:46.240This won't be too long, but I've kind of got all my notes here. So forgive me if I'm a little bit
00:00:52.360sound a little bit disorganized, but I'm going to clean this up in post editing. So anyways.
00:00:58.420Now, imagine a society where you can trust a stranger to watch your belongings, where businesses
00:01:04.920operate on, you know, handshakes or their word, where people willingly pay their taxes, okay,
00:01:11.920and volunteer for their community. Now, this is what would be considered a high trust society.
00:01:16.960And funny enough, I remember this society in my lifetime.
00:01:21.060I remember this probably throughout the 90s and to a certain degree in the early 2000s as well.
00:01:27.540But this is what a high trust society looks like, just to summarize a few of those points.
00:01:32.460Now, picture what we're going through currently, the current society.
00:01:36.700Constant suspicion, heavy, heavy regulation, you know, locked doors everywhere,
00:01:41.820families retreating into their tight-knit clans, their homes.
00:01:46.060they're never leaving their homes, and, of course, institutions that no one believes in.
00:01:51.760This is a small example of what a low-trust society would look like.
00:01:59.620Today, many Western nations are sliding from the first toward the second,
00:02:05.140and I don't even know, I wouldn't even say that we're sliding.
00:02:07.660I think that we've pretty much got there already.
00:02:10.460The transition, of course, doesn't happen usually, anyways, through a dramatic collapse,
00:02:15.240although I would argue that the West has definitely accelerated it in the last 10 to 15 years for sure,
00:02:22.160most obviously during or post the Convid scam.
00:02:27.560But generally, it happens gradually through cultural erosion, the demographic change,
00:02:34.420institutional failures and economic pressures.
00:02:37.980So in this video, we're going to explore how this shift occurs.
00:02:42.520And I read the essay and I read his essay, not the book, from Robert Putnam and also another one from Francis Fukuyama.
00:02:52.240It's got real world data as well that I was able to grab from those essays.
00:02:57.060The essay from Robert Putnam was, I'll link it in here.
00:03:01.380I can't remember the exact title, but it was basically similar, how we pivoted from a low trust or sorry, from a high trust to a low trust society.
00:03:11.220The only issue I guess I would have with these essays is the one from Putnam was written quite a while ago.
00:03:18.780I think it was in the late 80s or early 90s.
00:03:21.660So things have definitely changed quite a bit from then.
00:03:24.620So it may not all be relevant currently.
00:03:28.940But we're also going to pull out some current examples from across the West as of 2025 to 2026.
00:03:36.680So that should maybe give us a better idea of what we're looking at.
00:03:41.280What high-trust societies and low-trust societies look like?
00:03:53.040Again, remember if you lived through that period of time, you know, the 90s, the 80s, and stuff like that,
00:04:00.760where, you know, prior to cell phones, if your car broke down,
00:04:04.740you could pretty much guarantee unless you were in the middle of nowhere, that a stranger would
00:04:08.300pull over and help, or at very least get to a phone to call for help for you. There was, you
00:04:14.360know, we enjoyed low transaction costs. So because there wasn't a lot of theft, because there wasn't
00:04:20.100a lot of, you know, mistrust, there wasn't a lot of scamming, there wasn't a lot of, it's primarily
00:04:27.280boils down to the scamming and the stealing. That's why our transaction costs for everything
00:04:33.820have increased. So when you're in a high trust society, you enjoy low transaction costs, you
00:04:39.640enjoy strong civil society, and efficient institutions that work for you. People cooperate
00:04:48.580easily beyond family and close friends, so within the broader community. And this is what Fukuyama
00:04:55.440in his his writings rather call calls spontaneous sociability if you'll notice now to you know
00:05:04.800people walking on the street they don't really look at each other anymore you don't say hi to
00:05:08.180people most people haven't even communicated with their neighbors at all these days again
00:05:15.060this is all examples of a declining trust in society low trust societies by contrast rely
00:05:23.700heavily on family and clan ties. This also ties into the ethnic enclaves that we're experiencing
00:05:31.100due to the invasion. But when you're in a low trust society, you really don't trust anybody
00:05:37.040beyond your immediate family. Low trust societies require a thick rulebook. So this is why we're
00:05:44.560seeing more and more legislation coming out. Constant enforcement, why we're seeing, you know,
00:05:50.020third worlders being put in our police force and our military lawyers and obviously surveillance
00:05:56.980which is the end goal of all of this right well i guess the end goal is the one world government
00:06:01.180but surveillance is definitely towards the end of this and they are getting it
00:06:05.160these low trust societies suffer higher corruption uh higher crime rates and inefficiency and you
00:06:13.320know it's kind of i don't even know if it's an oxymoron but it's kind of funny because you would
00:06:17.900think that a society that relies heavily on like that has more rules more legislation more
00:06:23.420surveillance would curb all that but that's the fallacy in their belief that doesn't actually
00:06:28.520because all it does is it tells people that they're untrustworthy that society on a whole
00:06:33.840is untrustworthy so then people just become untrustworthy they're like well you know somebody
00:06:39.740if i don't scam they're going to scam me that's the kind of attitude it's a vicious cycle basically
00:06:44.040The tragedy is that high-trust societies can slowly slide into low-trust ones through a combination of cultural, institutional, demographic, and economic breakdowns, which we're going to go over step by step here, these different ones, and talk a little bit about each one.
00:07:03.940Now, what Putnam talked about, well, both Putnam and Fukuyama talked about, was some of the core mechanisms.
00:07:10.820and the core mechanism number one is erosions of or the erosion of shared norms and culture
00:07:18.720this is clearly what and sorry i should put in here that their studies and their his essays
00:07:26.340and stuff like that was based on the u.s but you know again there's not a ton of this stuff
00:07:32.200available in canada although dr ricardo duchene did write canada and decay which kind of goes
00:07:38.340over a broader you know scope of it but which is also a very good book to read but it applies I
00:07:45.300would think to most of the western world especially the U.S. and Canada because we're pretty much the
00:07:49.260same we're pretty much the same even as you know our commonwealth brothers and sisters so it's not
00:07:55.320really much different so I figured that it would be okay for the purposes of what we're talking
00:07:58.940about to use the U.S. data. So at the heart of a high trust society lies a norm or sorry lies a
00:08:05.940shared moral and cultural foundation, common ethical values, religious traditions, family
00:08:11.800stability, and a strong national identity.
00:08:15.520Is this the official beginning of White Boy Summer?
00:09:05.260And this is what, you know, we're trying to get back in Canada.
00:09:14.740This is what the Australians are trying to get back.
00:09:17.500And obviously the, you know, English as well, the Britons, the UK,
00:09:21.040they're trying to get back their strong national identity that we once had at one point in time.
00:09:26.820When these erode, people lose that invisible glue that holds society together.
00:09:31.920And even though I'm not, you know, hardcore Christian or anything like that, I do believe that when the, I guess when people stopped going to church, when people stopped believing in a, you know, higher thing, it became very individualistic.
00:09:49.200And of course, this is all by design. But that was what tended to keep people in line was, you know, shame from their peers, shame from the church, everybody kind of followed the same moral framework that was laid out by the church, whatever, if you're whether you're a Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, whatever it is, right.
00:10:07.160But people followed that overarching moral framework, and it kept people in line up until, you know, the whole movement from collectivism to individualism.
00:10:22.560Oh, here's the book, Robert Putnam's landmark book, Bowling Alone.
00:10:26.700He, the essay he wrote was also called Bowling Alone, and then he based the book on that essay.
00:10:34.820The trust data tells the story clearly, at least in the United States.
00:10:39.040The share of people in the U.S. saying that most people can't be trusted,
00:10:43.240it fell from about 46% in 1972 to around 30% to 34% in recent years.
00:10:50.700And like I said, he's writing this essay in, I want to say, the early 90s.
00:10:54.260So that was from 1972 to, you know, the early 90s.
00:10:57.960It had dropped from 46% to 30% to 34%.
00:11:01.240The other example of this is that we see parallel societies emerging across Europe.
00:11:27.460There is, as of the time of this essay, again, in the 90s, I'm sure it's a lot different now, 900 to 1000 sensitive neighborhoods, especially in Sweden, with over 65 vulnerable areas.
00:11:43.040and if you know anything about Sweden they have specific you know enclaves much like all of our
00:11:50.100countries do now where it's dangerous for Swedish people to to travel it's probably dangerous for
00:11:55.880the police to enforce any kind of law there and these sensitive neighborhoods are almost always
00:12:02.400cultural or ethnic they're not you know necessarily based on economic you know demographics although
00:12:11.680they go hand in hand, right? The ethnic enclaves definitely have a lower income because they're
00:12:17.980collecting social assistance more than likely. But it's mostly ethnic groups that make these
00:12:23.280neighborhoods, you know, no-go zones. Like Sweden, France, Germany, Belgium, they all have
00:12:28.900no-go zones, they're called, which is, you know, basically zones where the average
00:12:32.920person from that country doesn't want to travel into. It's dangerous.
00:12:37.480political polarization has intensified this again is mostly because the government is in my opinion
00:12:46.380and i'll talk about this maybe in another video but they're really trying to achieve that one
00:12:51.280world wef one world government scenario especially in the commonwealth countries and i say commonwealth
00:12:58.320because i'm mostly referring to you know the uk canada and australia because we're kind of all
00:13:04.300in lockstep. But it's happening all across Europe as well. And I think if anything is going to put
00:13:09.500a wrench in their plan for that, it will be the US. In Canada, again, not to get too off track,
00:13:15.540but we all know that, you know, our current Prime Minister, Mark Carney is a big WEF, you know,
00:13:21.640member, he helped write the whole, you know, one world government kind of policy shit that they
00:13:27.660were coming out with back in the day, prior to him becoming the Prime Minister here. So we all
00:13:32.820know what their goal is. And how you achieve this goal is to destabilize each nation, remove their
00:13:38.640identity, create, you know, chaos, order out of chaos, right? This is what the Freemasons believe.
00:13:44.240So they want to make order out of chaos. And their order is basically a low trust, highly surveilled,
00:13:49.140highly, you know, militarized, or, you know, police enforced society where you're controlled
00:13:54.940digitally, right? You aren't allowed to express your own opinion and stuff like that. So it's
00:13:59.300really the antithesis of a democracy if you really want to get down to it. Political polarization
00:14:05.220has intensified. People now discriminate more against political opponents than they do by race
00:14:10.700in some studies. Secularization, family breakdown, and visible disorder further fragment the shared
00:14:17.440norms that we used to have anyways. Now core mechanism number two is increased diversity
00:14:25.680without assimilation. Again, you're seeing this huge across the West, again, more so in Canada
00:14:35.100and Australia and the UK, but to another certain degree, the US as well. Robert Putnam's research
00:14:43.880in E Pluribus Unum, which I think is that essay, that's the Latin title, I guess, for it,
00:14:50.720found that rapid ethnic and racial diversity without assimilation often leads to hunkering
00:14:56.740down which you know makes lower trust across the board and when they say hunkering down they mean
00:15:02.460people just basically becoming insular like they you know don't participate in you know civic stuff
00:15:07.840they don't participate in community stuff church stuff you know whatever it is they don't participate
00:15:13.100in groups anymore social groups anything like that everything is basic because they're for many
00:15:18.120reasons because maybe they don't feel like they can relate to the people you know the diversity
00:15:23.680or a lot of times it's just for safety reasons and I also think a lot of times it's just because
00:15:29.240people are so demoralized they just really you know can't think of doing anything beyond
00:15:33.860what they're required to do which is you know your jobs and that has a lot to do with it too
00:15:38.880like their feminism which I did another video on and I actually wrote a sub stack on it as
00:15:45.220Actually, no, I haven't wrote the Substack yet, but I'm going to. The feminist movement and the kind of women in the workforce movement also had a part to play in this because women were historically more active in these things like church groups, school groups like PTA, you know, book clubs, whatever you want to call it.
00:16:04.440But now, being that most women are working a full eight-hour day and still handling the responsibilities at home with the children, they don't have time or energy to do that anymore.
00:16:14.660So that was also, you know, partly a cause of the whole reduction in civic participation.
00:16:26.580In Sweden, police identify over 65 vulnerable areas with clan structures and parallel societies.
00:16:32.780So what I mentioned earlier about them having specific enclaves, they have identified over 65 and they have their own parallel societies there.
00:16:55.200In the West Coast, we have Surrey, BC, which I believe was Indian prior to even Brampton becoming Indian.
00:17:02.780So, these are, you know, parallel societies that are running, basically, not even assimilating to the larger society, they're just kind of doing their own thing. And, you know, that creates all kinds of issues as well, being corruption being a big one.
00:17:19.180in france around 1500 uh banlieus and i don't know if i pronounced that right
00:17:27.240show persistent cultural separation and of course in the united kingdom you guys will all remember
00:17:33.800the grooming gang scandals and parallel lives that persist in some of the northern towns in
00:17:39.560the uk and i wouldn't i would probably argue that they persist in some of the you know other areas
00:17:44.940of the UK as well. And then of course, the United States and Canada, we have large enclaves and
00:17:51.260ongoing cultural persistence, which has formed. And of course, the key pattern to all of this
00:17:58.300is high volume migration from culturally distant sources, i.e. the Middle East, Africa, you know,
00:18:07.560those kinds of things, people that are very difficult to assimilate, mostly Muslim communities
00:18:12.520or Islam communities, without strong assimilation pressure,
00:18:16.280so they're not being pressured to assimilate.
00:18:18.000If anything in Canada, they're being encouraged not to assimilate.
00:18:22.400This weakens the social capital that high-trust societies need.
00:18:28.280So it takes away that trust of your, I guess, neighbor
00:18:34.280or the trust of people that you meet on the street.
00:18:37.440I guess the trust as far as that you're not going to be stabbed
00:18:41.540or assaulted or stuff like that. We used to have a society like that where, you know, you weren't
00:18:45.700really that worried to walk down the street at, you know, midnight or whatever like that. Now you
00:18:50.580can't even do that during the day in some areas, which is pretty sad. Core mechanism three is
00:18:55.960institutional failure and corruption. When governments become unreliable, through whether
00:19:02.560it's corrupt elites or politicized justice, the vertical trust collapse. We all know this, that
00:19:09.540justice in Canada is definitely two-tiered. There is tons of people that have committed crimes here
00:19:16.640that are not Canadian citizens who are getting off on much lighter sentences to avoid deportation
00:19:23.040based on their Canadian counterparts, right, or compared to their Canadian counterparts. They're
00:19:28.760getting a lower sentence. We're now going to jail for saying mean words on the internet, but yet
00:19:34.540people are able to, you know, kill a hockey team of 16 people and get out on eight years jail and
00:19:41.020still be able to claim asylum or want to claim asylum here, even though they've been ordered
00:19:46.320to be deported. This is the kind of stuff that, you know, corrupts the society, turns it into a
00:19:50.700low trust society. In the United States, the 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index hit a record low.
00:20:00.700And concerns in the U.S., anyways, include politicization of justice and revolving doors.
00:20:28.120And we can talk about, you know, Daniel Penny thing, you're no longer, you're no longer willing to help a stranger because the chances are, depending on who is assaulting that stranger, that you will be the one to go to jail.
00:20:42.160i mean look at the uk the guy who just died who was uh arrested after being stabbed multiple times
00:20:51.180by a ceremonial dagger and he was being arrested on allegations of saying something racist the
00:20:59.540police didn't worry about the fact that he was bleeding out they were more concerned that he
00:21:03.200may have said a mean word so this is a perfect example of a low trust society in europe scandals
00:21:10.820like Qatargate, rocked the European Parliament, and of course, Canada faced planning failures
00:21:16.140around immigration and housing, being that they, you know, airdropped hundreds of thousands of
00:21:21.980people here under temporary, you know, programs or whatever they want to call them, whatever stream
00:21:27.160they want to call them, and did not have the infrastructure or anything to handle them or
00:21:34.340the blessing of the people either, which is important. How a low trust society creates a
00:21:40.020vicious cycle and a gradual decline. Low trust triggers dangerous self-reinforcing cycles.
00:21:48.820For example, like I said earlier, higher transaction costs kill the economic efficiency.
00:21:53.820So everything costs more, but you're not making any more. Insurance rates, you know,
00:21:59.620goods that you're buying at the store to cover the cost of stolen goods, all these things end up
00:22:05.000costing you a lot more, right? Also, like I said, to the fact that like, you know, before when we
00:22:10.600were a high trust society, you didn't have to have all these contracts and all these lawyers
00:22:14.780involved, you could just have a handshake between, you know, two people. And that was as good as
00:22:19.200any kind of legal agreement. So because we're a highly litigious society now, again, because of
00:22:24.980the import of multiple different cultures who thrive on scamming, this is where we're at now.
00:22:31.560Another example would be the fact that now a lot of Canadians are having to jump through hoops to get basic things like a driver's license.
00:22:59.380well why why they're here check their log books check because there's all kinds of these people
00:23:07.120all over check their log books like um you know uh alone things like that that weren't that
00:23:14.460difficult before now we're having to jump through hoops and that's all because people from other
00:23:18.600cultures that were you know have invaded basically have you know taken over are from low trust
00:23:24.640societies and they've created canada or they've turned canada into a low trust society due to
00:23:29.120their criminal activity. And now the rest of us are all suffering. So it kills the economic
00:23:33.960efficiency, the cooperation and public good declines, crime and corruption spirals, we know
00:23:41.320that. And of course, society fragments into enclaves and tribes, unless you're white, you're
00:23:46.820not allowed to do that. You know, if you want to join a group as a white person, you're not allowed.
00:23:52.280You can't join any kind of active club or anything like that. But if you're not, then have at it,
00:23:56.720You can join whatever kind of club you want.
00:24:00.420We see early to middle stages in the contemporary West.
00:24:05.720I would argue that we're probably middle to late stages.
00:24:09.980Well, places like Venezuela and southern Italy show longer term stagnation.
00:24:15.780So why is reversal going to be so difficult and what it's going to require?
00:24:21.300trust is a slow growing stock easy to destroy but extremely hard to rebuild so I personally
00:24:31.620don't think it's possible without a total destruction of the economy of the political
00:24:37.720structure of basically everything I believe that we have to have total you know remigration and
00:24:44.240get back to our, you know, homogeneity, our, you know, our morals, our national beliefs,
00:24:51.460what held us together as a nation prior to this multicultural, you know, experiment that they
00:24:58.920started on us in the 60s and 70s. Reversing this requires competent governance. Well,
00:25:05.080we don't have that there. And that's why I said I think it's going to have to fail so that we can
00:25:08.920rebuild secure borders again don't have that we know how many people have been recently arrested
00:25:15.380that are you know not Canadian that have been doing very bad things like switching luggage tags
00:25:20.920and stuff like that and they have security clearance so they're allowing these people in
00:25:25.380even though they're criminals so we don't really have a secure border and this is something that
00:25:29.320the U.S. has you know complained about not saying that they have anything better but they're at
00:25:33.960least trying to do something about it. Canada has, we don't have secure borders whatsoever.
00:25:40.300Cultural renewal, that's what the Dominion Society is trying to do. And you know, some of the active
00:25:45.080clubs like Second Sons and NS13, they're trying to create a cultural renewal. Mostly the Dominion
00:25:51.360Society is doing that, but some of the other groups as well. Stronger assimilation and rebuilding
00:25:57.600shared identity. I don't necessarily agree with the stronger assimilation. I mean, again, I think
00:26:03.940I think that initially when Canada was, you know, became a nation with Sir John A. McDonald and stuff like that, the assimilation part and, you know, the immigration party talked about was European immigrants.
00:26:18.620And simply because, yes, even within Europe, people had different, slightly different kind of, you know, cultural habits, cultural, you know, practices and all that kind of stuff.
00:26:32.960And they weren't that vastly different that it created too much of a ripple and it was controlled as well.
00:26:37.340So these people really didn't have a chance to build their own ethnic enclaves.
00:26:42.700And like I said, even like the Italians, for example, the Portuguese and stuff like that, they weren't that vastly different than the existing society already.
00:26:51.660So it didn't really cause a lot of the fracturing that we're seeing now.
00:26:57.200You know, high trust societies are rare historical achievements.
00:27:00.600again, it can't happen as far as I'm concerned with a multiracial society. It just can't.
00:27:06.620It's just too many differences. Losing them is far easier than regaining them.
00:27:11.860So basically, the choices we make today are going to determine our future. And like I said,
00:27:16.900I don't think that we're going to be able to reverse it. Like, sorry, reverse it in its existing
00:27:23.920form we're definitely going to have to you know dismantle the political institutions um and you
00:27:31.880know kind of start from scratch what that looks like i i don't know but it definitely can't be a
00:27:37.880democracy because a democracy can't exist in a multiracial society because everybody has different
00:27:44.120goals people are not in the same kind of they don't have the same beliefs the same morals and
00:27:49.420stuff like that. So democracy is based on people that are very similar in their ethics and their
00:27:54.900morals, even in sometimes their, you know, religion, for example. So it's really difficult
00:27:59.880because you don't, these people are coming from countries that don't have democracies. So they're
00:28:04.300never going to, and they're coming at an age where it's not like they're going to be able to
00:28:07.420learn easily, right? And they're from, let's be real, they're from extremist cultures that
00:28:12.800their total belief is that it's their job to create Islam across the whole entire world.
00:28:20.400So again, I can't imagine those people are ever going to assimilate.
00:28:25.040And then when you have the Indians, for example, they come from an extremely low trust society
00:28:30.400where everybody tries to perfect the art of scamming. That's never going to change. That
00:28:38.100is just inherent in their society. It's something that they basically it's in their DNA, it's in
00:28:44.600their biology. So they're not going to change. And, you know, the difference is that I guess
00:28:50.440prior to, you know, the Trudeau era, you know, invasion, at least the point system kind of and
00:28:58.160the fact that they weren't coming in as as with as many people, they weren't coming in on mass
00:29:03.120like they are now you might have been getting the you know top one percent but now we're getting
00:29:10.540you know the people that they don't even want there so why would we want them here and that's
00:29:16.000my point but anyways thank you guys for watching and if you thought it was informative i guess give
00:29:22.180it a thumbs up i hate i hate grifting for thumbs up um and all that stuff but i guess you know
00:29:29.180this is something you're supposed to do. But yeah, I appreciate you watching and I will see you next time.