Tuesday, 22 March 2011

What is anti-authoritarianism?

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Anti-authoritarianism is not being 'anti' authority (because anti-authoritarians are very keen on imposing their own authority).

Anti-authoritarianism is actually 'anti' stable and ancient authority.

Anti-authoritarianism is in favour of new and unstable (changeable) authority.

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All instances of actually existing authority thereby become arbitrary, hence unreal (because the real is stable and ancient).

Anti-authoritarianism is therefore in favour of the unreal.

So - following the triumph of anti-authoritarianism - all authority (including the authority of the champions of anti-authoritarianism) is regarded as presumptively arbitrary, recent, temporary, and unreal.

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Is it any wonder that anti-authoritarianism inevitably leads to chaos?

And that, so long as anti-authoritarianism prevails, order cannot be restored.

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