It’s always dangerous when a trend becomes a truth in everyday peoples eyes. Suddenly something is a fact just because it has been the same way long enough. The SvD writer Andreas Cervenka brilliantly defines the dangerous transition from faith to trust, that have contributed greatly to the size of the recently busted bubble on the Swedish housing market , as:

“Faith is to see a circus artist drive a man in a wheelbarrow on a slack string, and being totally convinced that he won’t fall. Trust is to take a seat yourself in that wheelbarrow.” (Authors translation).

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