The Question of Authority

Institutional authority is dead. What does that mean for society?

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• tlg847

[Adipatus]

Good riddance of centralized, mandatory authority.

Today's authorities have to earn their authorities and not expect others to kiss their rings. Merit has to be the new standard of authority.

[tlg847]

It's quite a change for people of my generation to realize that some of us have waited to reach this exalted moment only to find it having disappeared! Oh, the irony!! Thanks.

[That80sGuy1972]

I was always an anti-establishment guy and never a label whore, so I also noticed this trend. I am seeing more and more people with my "rebellious" attitude surfacing (less and less are intelligent though).

Welcome to the Information Age... er... this latest stage in it. I'm a dinosaur, so the age border is a grey area to me.

I could rant a bit... but I won't. I will just say that this is a really cool vid.

[tlg847]

We dinosaurs have seen lots of things, one being that some things do persist over time, and some actually take more time to take root than we thought. Thanks.

[SupremeCosmicForce]

Talking about an old trend - greed. This is a negative emotion that can produce negative results, whether in the corporate environment or otherwise.

[SilverStarFilms]

There is another phrase... "the masses are asses". :)

[KlaxonCow]

I just can't tell.

Nevertheless, the cat is out of the bag. The genie out of the bottle. The idea is out there - and ideas are bulletproof. You can't ever turn the clock back on that one.

It might not be today nor tomorrow, but, one day, there quite inevitably will come a time when they finally lose their grip.

Their days are already numbered. That is quite inevitable. The only question remains - how big is that number?

[KlaxonCow]

It's easier to surrender into the care of "Big Brother" and accept this new oncoming serfdom and Nanny State neotany, than it is to take responsibility of our own lives and break out of the cage.

As the latter is not remotely easy, as I mentioned, and requires courage and strength to face the fear, in order to kill the fear.

Does a critical mass of humanity have that strength and courage to do that yet?

Or have the mechanisms of "dumbing down" materialist consumerism actually worked?

[KlaxonCow]

But it is because conversations like this - showing an increasing self-awareness in the mass of the people - are now occurring on a daily basis all over the Internet.

The word "revolution" is being dropped so casually, so often, by so many ordinary Proles in daily chatter.

It is scaring the proverbial shit out of them. As it rightly should.

And it will all depend on one factor - will the masses want it enough to hold their nerve?

As I say, the decision point.

[KlaxonCow]

For them to break cover and adopt this aggressive stance, then we must have cornered them. The killing blow must be within reach.

As such openly aggressive moves are a strategy of desperation - they are the wolf making its final last ditch attempt to regain a control that it's losing and fears will be totally lost unless it acts quickly.

The wolf is distinctly showing fear - and, ordinarily, that's absolutely unheard of.