> It's actually staggering how much of society is structured purely around a lack of trust.

You've ignored one huge category: disagreements. We can all observe the rules, but we may not all come to the same conclusions as to how they bind our actions. Reasonable people can disagree without being "dishonest."

Further, you're pre-supposing a list of rules that does not and does not need to change. Which is far less profound than you make it out to be.