Toggle each trust-pole on or off and watch what kind of society results. Mountain, River, and Sea aren't stages of progress — they're three permanent, simultaneous requirements. Remove one and see what the other two become.
Mountainperson
Riverrole
Seamechanism
Click a pole to switch it off or on
Mountain
Trust in a specific person — earned through real, direct history. Doesn't scale, but can't be faked or bought.
River
Trust in a role or office — holds regardless of who occupies it. Scales to millions, but indifferent to the person inside it.
Sea
Trust in an impersonal mechanism — contract, price, reputation. Works between total strangers, at the cost of treating people as interchangeable.