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[3] viXra:2608.0091 [pdf] submitted on 2026-08-27 16:40:44
Authors: Madison Brown
Comments: 14 Pages.
Argentina occupies a paradoxical position in the comparative literature on trust: a country with one of Latin America's oldest continuous democratic periods since 1983, yet one whose citizens report chronically low confidence in one another and in the state. This article presents a narrative literature review of empirical and theoretical scholarship on interpersonal, institutional, and political trust in Argentina, drawing on Latinobarómetro survey data, World Values Survey findings, and peer-reviewed studies indexed on Google Scholar. The review traces four interlocking patterns. First, generalized interpersonal trust in Argentina, while comparatively higher than the regional Latin American average in recent survey rounds, remains low by global standards and has been shaped by decades of recurrent economic crisis. Second, institutional and political trust has followed a long-run downward trajectory punctuated by short-lived recoveries around new administrations, with a persistent gap between broad normative support for democracy and specific satisfaction with its performance. Third, this erosion is driven by an interacting cluster of factors: entrenched corruption and high-profile prosecutions of political elites, recurrent monetary and economic crises that have produced a durable narrative of monetary distrust, income inequality, and a closed political elite characterized by high incumbency and family-based succession. Fourth, Argentina's deep political polarization, commonly referred to as "la grieta" (the crack), both reflects and reinforces the erosion of generalized institutional trust. The review also considers how the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2023 election of Javier Milei illustrate the practical stakes of this trust deficit, and it identifies gaps in the literature that future longitudinal and comparative research should address.
Category: Social Science
[2] viXra:2608.0047 [pdf] submitted on 2026-08-12 20:48:35
Authors: Lin Hu Zhong
Comments: 10 Pages. (Note by viXra Admin: Please cite listed scientific reference)
This paper proposes "Fame Theory," arguing that no fame means no success, where "fame" specifically refers to good fame, positive fame, and honorable fame — the reputation bestowed upon an individual by society based on recognition of positive value. This paper explicitly excludes bad fame, ill fame, and infamous fame. Using wealth as a reference framework, the argument unfolds across four dimensions: visibility, permanence, independence, and distinctiveness. The essence of fame is a positive symbolic consensus in society; it transcends material accumulation and becomes the highest expression of an individual's life value.
Category: Social Science
[1] viXra:2608.0022 [pdf] replaced on 2026-08-28 09:08:20
Authors: Richard M. Blaber
Comments: 22 Pages. CC-BY-NC-ND.
For the majority of its existence, our species did not live in settlements, did not have agriculture, writing or metallurgy. These are all features of the Holocene Epoch, and the global human population during most of the time since the start of that epoch remained both low and relatively constant until the beginning of the 19th Century, accelerating through the 20th Century, following the Industrial and Agrarian Revolutions. The enormous population, and the complex, planet-wide capitalist technological civilisation on which they depend, but which also exploits them, are now faced with numerous dangers, which are likely to prove insuperable.
Category: Social Science
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