The Myth Of Authority

Myth Of Authority
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Dear viewer,

It’s perfectly natural for someone to lash out, as a result of the cognitive dissonance undoubtedly experienced when someone encounters ideas diametrically opposed to what someone has been brainwashed to believe over a lifetime of indoctrination. I only wish someone was as kind to me in the past, as it was a very long and hard road of disillusionment over many years of deconversion for me.

To get some exposure to what the myth of authority is, watch this: [The Myth Of Authority watch?v=NEPMBSq5dU4]
To better understand how it was you became to be brainwashed, watch this: [The Origins of the American Public Education System: Horace Mann & the Prussian Model of Obedience watch?v=HZp7eVJNJuw]

Once upon a time, I too was a hard-core believer in authority. I joined the USAF at the young age of 18, in 1989, out of a sense of duty, honor, and country. I was an airborne Hebrew linguist and flew reconnaissance missions over Iraq for Desert Storm/Shield, as well as missions over the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas during my 6 year enlistment. Ironically, this service was the beginning stages of a long and cognitive dissonant road of deconversion from my mega-belief in the myth of authority. It was only after a sufficient number of points of that mega-belief system were disillusioned that my overall belief in authority collapsed.

In order to function at an informed level, and not just follow what everyone else is doing and accepting as “just the way things are”, one must be aware of the foundation or the premise of whatever ideology they are operating under. So let’s analyze the axioms of Consequentialism juxtaposed to Voluntaryism. We live in a world dominated by people who still believe in the myth. But it is possible to understand that authority is actually founded upon an illusion, and it’s totally unnecessary. The premise of the state / authority is called Consequentialism. Consequentialism is diametrically opposed to what many are rapidly accepting to be the future of human evolution, namely Voluntaryism.

Society today is ruled by a spectrum of varying levels of Authoritarianism, some more harsh than others, but are based on the same foundation called Consequentialism. Consequentialism is the class of normative ethical theories holding that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for any judgment about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct. Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint, a morally right act (or omission from acting) is one that will produce a good outcome, or consequence. In other words, Consequentialism = “The end justifies the means”. Whereas Voluntaryism is 180 degrees diametrically opposed to Consequentialism.

Voluntaryism is founded upon a simple axiom, “whatever is voluntary and consensual among well informed and aware adults is ethical.” Instead of the vast unfathomable overcomplexity which is unavoidable when society basis its morality upon the easily falsifiable and fallacious ethics of consequentialism, Voluntaryism is when humanity forms many horizontally structured organizations based upon symbiotic win win relationships. There is no need for rigid hierarchical command and control structures held together by fear and threats of coercion escalating to the use of actual violence and deadly force found at the heart of authoritarian collectives. The only way violence is acceptable under Voluntaryism is in defense of those who are initiating violence and coercion.

It’s easy to find consequentialism to be fallacious. For example, you do not have the right to steal money from your neighbor and euphemize it as taxation in order to fund something you see as noble. However, if you wore the badge of authority you are perceived as having a moral superior right to do just that, and many other much more horrific bad deeds and mislabel them as good. So where does Authority get the right to do things that normal people would be thrown in a cage for doing? You can’t delegate a right you don’t even have to authority. So how is it that Authority claims that right? Authority will perform a myriad of smoke and mirror pseudo religious ceremonies and use obfuscatory language and terms such as consent of the governed and other euphemisms to justify their immorality… but it doesn’t change the truth.

Authority is a myth. And it’s what most everyone believes to be just the way things are. Until the myth of authority is thoroughly understood by everyone, humanity will walk pigeon-toed at a snail’s pace into the future.