We have already, in the chapter on system trust, encountered forms of relatively inevitable trust formation, which must function to a large extent regardless of individual motivational structures, and which furthermore are not controlled from outside but internally, within the systems which demand trust. Their security of function, and also the possibility of creating trust in trust, depend on this indifference. Thus the question as to the structures and processes of the systems which bestow trust recedes and becomes less meaningful; it does not depend so much on the readiness to trust. The trusting systems are, as it were, relieved of responsibility for their trust.

Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 299