Author: Julia El-Haj

Every civilization has an invisible infrastructure. It cannot be photographed. It cannot be stored in a vault. It cannot be defended by an army. Yet when it begins to collapse, everything built above it becomes vulnerable. That infrastructure is trust. Trust is what allows strangers to live together, economies to function, governments to operate, and societies to confront problems larger than any individual. Without it, even the most advanced civilization becomes fragile. The defining crisis of our era is not simply that humanity faces too many problems. It is that we are losing the ability to solve them together. Across…