🧩 BND Motif Index · M025
Social trust erosion
People no longer trust institutions, technology or each other, and the bonds that hold society together are wearing away.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Information integrity
- 6claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 3right shows it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
⤵️ under it: 🧩 AI breaking social trust 🧩 Bowling alone
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Big brother 🧩 Corporate exploitation
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
⚖️ center 1
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-22 “The American people will lose all trust and respect for mainstream media and politicians following the economic crisis.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) - 2026-10-12 “Americans have been becoming less socially active for decades.”
🎙️ The Dispatch Podcast 🎙️ The Matt Walsh Show 🎙️ PBD Podcast (podcast) - 2026-10-09 “The current political administration is experienced by many Americans as a physical and mental threat.”
🎙️ 1A (WAMU/NPR) - 2026-10-06 “Americans are increasingly spending time alone and avoiding community spaces.”
🎙️ The Dispatch Podcast 🎙️ The Matt Walsh Show 🎙️ PBD Podcast (podcast) - 2026-10-05 “Surveillance capitalism is a violation of individual privacy and a dangerous form of corporate exploitation that undermines personal freedoms and social trust.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-05 “Politics is negatively affecting the psychological, social, and physical health of many Americans.”
🎙️ 1A (WAMU/NPR)
M025 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-22 · what this is · how the index works