Jersey Flight: DEGREES OF ANTI-AUTHORITARIANISM

Saturday, November 1, 2014

DEGREES OF ANTI-AUTHORITARIANISM

There are degrees of being able to resist authority. One could classify the systems of authority and then measure their anti-authoritarianism in relation to these classification.

Level 1 would be something like, the ability to resist the authority of Parents and Teachers...

Level 2 would be something like, the ability to resist the authority of Police and Civil authority in general...

Level 3 would be something like, the ability to resist Social obedience, Friends, Mentors...

The highest level would ultimately have to be the ability to resist the authority of the Self.

[I have not thought deeply about these classifications, but I think the idea here is fairly solid.]

One of the most important things about us as thinkers is how much ability we have to resist authority. Anyone can be taught to obey, but it takes courage, power, to resist! The better we are at breaking and resisting authority the more free we become!

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About Me:

Jersey Flight can be considered as a sort of left-wing version of Nietzsche. He is an iconoclast against all forms of cultural superstition, including elitism and academia. His intellectual interests include, defining and expanding the psychological qualities that account for advanced thinking, as well as collaborating a method for its culturation. He has repeatedly challenged intellectuals to transcend theory and fulfill their social responsibility to engage culture through polemics. His writing style is consciously concise; an anti-scholastic, he tries to communicate complex ideas in simple prose. He has written multiple volumes of philosophy that have not yet been released to the public. He is the Director of Interdisciplinary Research at the Institute for Advanced Dialectical Research.