Craig Johnson
Where do they get the authority to do this? Is it from your vote? Make no mistake this so called authority is a myth that has no basis in reality.
All destructive authority figures would become powerless if men/women withdrew their support. Powerless to plunder and destroy values.
Consider this quote from A Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boetie, written in the 16th Century:
“The oppressor has nothing more than the power you confer upon him to destroy you. Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many arms to beat you with if he does not borrow them from you? The feet that trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not your own? How does he have any power over you except through you? How would he dare assail you if he had no cooperation from you?”
Also Stanley Milgrams in his book, Obedience to Authority, demonstrates through the famous electric-shock, experiments done at Yale the the majority of average, “citizens” will follow authority figures to do destructive, immoral acts up to the point of injuring, even killing other people. As quoted from Milgrams’s book:"
“…ordinary people simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.”
Reference- Neo-Tech Power
