The idea that united states used to be a "high trust society" is a modern propaganda invention. Boomers lie all the time about things that don't even make sense to lie about. They are clearly so comfortable doing this that they must have been lying like this their entire lives. How could the united states actually have been "high trust" if the average person knows everybody lies constantly and you yourself, as a boomer, lie all the time too. Any rational person would not trust people who are pathologically dishonest in a society where nobody is strait with you about anything. The boomers in the past would get away with lying more, but they would have to be found out at some point and then any trust they have built up destroyed by the glaring fact that it was all based on false representations. I know people lie a lot now too and that in certain cultures dishonestly in very common. I'm not naive to these facts. I have know boomers who will get very upset with you when you tell them that they are lying; they expect to be believed without question all the crazy shit they say. They get very offended and have a little pity party about it, a sort of tantrum, if they receive any push back. They themselves are casually dishonest. They also will accuse you of lying even when you are telling the truth, just because they don't like or don't understand what you are saying. It's this game they play: They are always honest, and throw a little tantrum about how they never lie, if you call them out on their bullshit. However at the same time they attack you and other people for lying without evidence. They expect and get very upset if they are not automatically believed, but at the same time expect other people to not be entirely honest. The "high trust society" narrative has to be a modern invention to re-enforce boomers existing arrogance about their own perceived honesty which is a head-cannon fantasy that they maintain about themselves.