It is earned by trust or force
I contend that the blending of "might makes right" with authority is false. The term has obviously been used that way for decades, in my opinion to intentionally remove the principle that authority requires delegation of power. "Authority" claimed by force alone is not authority at all but tyranny.
True. However, people often conflate tyranny with authority as is the case now. We clearly have tyranny now. Authority left the room decades ago. Further, we have no government. What passes for government is corporate feudalism. What we think of as politicians are mercenaries hired by these fascist corporations.
hired by these fascist corporations.
Oh bullshit. Corporations are owned by PEOPLE. Corporations have boards and shareholders. Those board seats and shareholder votes are owned by Blackrock, Vanguard, and other funds. Those funds are owned by the Rothschilds and other wealthy banking families. These wealthy banking families have NGOs and "Foundations" that their owned corporations donate money to in order to not pay taxes, which just redirects their wealth back to themselves tax free. Then these foundations donate to political campaigns, and launder money through groups of "members" to donate to political campaigns, in order to control all the important levers of government, and the governments' armies. Their media corporations and tech companies that they also owned are there to keep everyone distracted, divided, and complacent with whatever crazy, evil shit they want to do next, like depopulation and digital ID. They own the central banks that control our debt and money supply. They literally own and control everything behind layers of obfuscation like "corporations" "NGOs" and "Foundations".
It's the Rothschilds, Schiffs, Sacklers of the world. NOT corporations. Corporations are there to disguise who is really in control.
Right on. I simply didn't go deep enough. I do believe the rabbit hole goes even deeper.
Yes. That's what I'm getting at. The word "authority" carries the idea of moral or rightful obligation to obey. The decades-long conflation of authority with tyranny is to produce a generation of people who either feel morally obligated to obey tyrants or to fall into the trap of believing that force alone generates rightful authority.
Words have been coopted by the tyrants. I often struggle writing because words have multiple meanings. To make my point now requires writing a lot of words so the reader can understand the point. The paradox is writing too much prevents the people from reading it.
What does it matter what name you give the people who are putting you in prison?
When you view the world that way you are nothing but a sucker. Calling something tyranny or authority makes no difference if both mean you are ruled by someone else. We do not live in an imaginary world where no group uses violence and everyone is peaceful and reasonable. All it takes is one group willing to use force, and the peaceful/reasonable people end up slaves. This is why libertarianism is an idiotic belief system. It has no check and balance for those willing to scheme for more power. It doesn't always happen suddenly with a coup. The coup can happen over generations or even hundreds of years, if the attacking group is playing the very long game. This is how we ended up where we are today. Powerful families with an extremist/religious in-group preference that they hide from outsiders usurping control of the forces/authorities that keep the societies intact, planning beyond their own lifespan into the lifespan of their kids, grand kids, great grand kids, and so on.
All it takes is one group willing to use force, and the peaceful/reasonable people end up slaves.
Why do you assume that just authority and reasonable men cannot also use force?
Because those who took control over the last several hundred years now control a national government that taxes ~50% of everyones' income through sales and income taxes, has a huge army with nukes and police forces. They also control the media that would normally be the avenue to get the word out. Your local militia club isn't going to overthrow the people in power. You aren't thinking big enough.
>"Authority" claimed by force alone is not authority at all but tyranny.
Call it what you want, the problem remains the same; what are you going to do about it? How? By playing semantics? Poetry?
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/authority
the moral or legal right or ability to control
the power to control or demand obedience from others
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/authority
the power to determine, adjudicate, or otherwise settle issues or disputes; jurisdiction; the right to control, command, or determine.
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Whether that power is tyrannic or not is irrelevant, it doesn't make it just go away, ask north koreans
Vastrightwing is absolutely right
Half your definitions included "moral" or "right". And that's what I'm getting at. It's low IQ to pretend that force alone generates authority, which carries the idea of moral or rightful obligation for obedience. It's important because authority and tyranny are opposites and we should then act differently with regard to them.
And what about the other half? Authority doesn't necessarily have to be legal or moral, it can be, that's all
>And that's what I'm getting at.
You're getting nowhere
> It's low IQ to pretend that force alone generates authority
Who has the authority when you're captured by a cartel, tied to a chair and surrounded by 10 of them, in a cave
You? Or their boss?
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You're naive and you're not very bright, obviously, so you can shove that "low IQ" up your ass, and spin...
> It's important because authority and tyranny are opposites
No, they aren't mutually exclusive, ask north koreans...
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