Trust is the opposite of fear and critic. If you trust something you do not fear this phenomenon. If you trust something you do not feel a need to criticize the phenomenon. Trust provides a feeling of well-being. Fear provides a feeling of anger. The feeling of well-being provides care, while anger directs you towards critic.
In the deep of being there is a dichotomy between trust and fear. These dispositions has two directions.
Fear-anger-critic
Trust-well-being-care
There is no real critic without some kind of fear and anger. Children can not learn critical thinking without feeling fear towards some knowledge or phenomena. Human are not able to criticize a source or a argument if they trust and care for it. There is no critic without this resistance. At the same time, trust, well-being and care is the purpose of being. Fear, anger and critic is the lack of trust, well-being and care.
I do fear some of the development of modern social science, but I trust the insight presented above. In this a care. If you are being critical to this insight, you probably experience it as strange or unknown. It is possible to trust the unknown or the stranger, but if you start care for the unknown, the unknown has become known and the stranger has become a friend.
Existential essentialism 