In conditions of modernity, attitudes of trust towards abstract systems are usually routinely incorporated into the continuity of day-to-day activities and are to a large extent enforced by the intrinsic circumstances of daily life. Thus trust is much less of a “leap to commitment” than a tacit acceptance of circumstances in which other alternatives are largely foreclosed.

XREF: Connects to Giddens on trust in abstract systems and to broader sociological work on tacit knowledge and routine in modernity.

Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Moderni…, loc. 222