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[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago
[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 4 points 1 year 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.

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 year 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.

[-] Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

The “fabric of society” they’re trying to preserve:

[-] fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

You found my blankie!

[-] sadreality@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year 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.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 17 points 1 year ago

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

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] kepa@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] lilsolar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Anti authority is the furthest thing from facism lol

[-] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

When balance is lost, extremes become.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

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