A woman my age, at work, was informing me that doctors in Thief River, 40 years ago, were authority figures, obeyed by patients without question or hestitation. She recalled that her mother accepted as gospel whatever the doctor advised, and followed his instruction to the letter.
She noted that doctors are no longer revered that way.
We were discussing how a decline in respect for authority figures and traditional faith, mores and morality is what is rife today, with the decline in moral values generally, and it contributes to our decaying society and dying civilization.
I did not openly disagree with her, but it is obvious that for traditional, groupist people, a strong obedience and reverence towards, and deference to authority figures like doctors, politicians and police officers was necessary for maintaining a virtuous people and a civil society of law and order.
If there is not a healthy, rational scepticism towards authority figures, we remain groupist, uncivilized, backward superstitious, poor, evil, ignorant, hungry, oppressed and stagnant.
As we move towards individual-living, the individuated anarchist, the supercitizen, will each be her own authority figure and follower. A confedereacy of this cooperative peers shall populate society as they achieve and keep harmony by balancing self-interest and the public good.
This supercitizen will obey and respect God and the Good Spirits while thinking for herself, living and ruling her own small kingdom, and doing her own thing--which is the thing desired by the Good Spirits at the same time.
Authority is still respected but is self-authorized.
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