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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Authoritarians are both more likely to work in government intelligence and investigation agencies while also being unable to imagine any other way of society working besides what they have. Authoritarians are unimaginative and forceful and don't want to give up their special place in society where they make rules for others and can be excepted from those rules by their friends who enforce the rules. The authorities are terrified of being treated like the civilian population they think they rule.

Let's change society and make things fair for all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Very much like "the captain" in The Handmaid's Tale (book version, never saw the tv version).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This article is about authority figures, not about authoritarians. That’s like mixing up paediatricians and paedophiles

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You do understand the difference between authority and authoritarianism, right?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You do understand the similarities between authority and authoritarianism in our current world where oligarchs and billionaires control most of the money and a fair chunk of the security services?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

No. If I’m a doctor with qualifications in microbiology and I tell you that vaccines are important an effective, then I’m it’s worth listening to me because I’m authoritative, more so than the random guy on YouTube. It’s the erosion of **authority ** as a problem that the article is about.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago

Well, maybe stop exploiting everyone for the benefit of the rich and this wont be an issue?

I mean, that's how we got the modern welfare state, and how we managed to engineer one of the most relatively tranquil, peaceful and progressive periods in human history: by ensuring everyone had enough, rather than letting a few fight for it all while most had none.

It's like the solution is staring these people in the face, but they can't--they won't--see it.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The β€œfabric of society” they’re trying to preserve:

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

You found my blankie!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

rich people and state colluding to fuck over peasants is deff NOT tearing any "fabric of society" tho!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Part of the whole narrative is to flame, encourage and promote extremism and extremist ideas. When the public discourse is completely muddled with extreme views and ideologies .... mainstream, moderate and actual criticisms are more easily dismissed as 'tearing apart the fabric of society'.

The owners and controllers of civilization want to maintain the status quo, they don't want change.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ugh, the facists aren't the only ones who want to tear down the hierarchy. The good guys do too, albeit for very different reasons

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Yup. But the hierarchy has lost the ability to tell the difference between the two and that is what will kill us all.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We are approaching the end of a global capital cycle and we have radicalized most with the modern social media echo chamber using ideologies while uneducating our youth.

We need to teach our people how to think critically once again while remembering that some civil discourse is ok. We are walking slowly towards fascism in the west and we should be careful.

We are all different humans so lets treat each others that way!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anti authority is the furthest thing from facism lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fascists tend to use anti-authority sentiment to support their own rise to power. "I'm taking power from the bad people and using it to help you!" kind of thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

When balance is lost, extremes become.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Hey, KISS fans might be dumb, but they’re not stupid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

If the end result is violence on them, I think they earned it.