Conscience vs Obedience, Responsibility vs Authority: a Measure of the Humanoid Potential Trouble Source Horrors, 5
Authority does not exist in itself: everything is but agreement, and all authority that exists is but acknowledged authority. And whether it is out of free will, through deception or under duress, it nonetheless remains agreement on acknowledgement: if you raise your hands before a weapon, the robber exploits your agreeing and acknowledging that your life is valuable. More valuable than your wallet or your honour.
On the basis of many of the previously mentioned humanoid faults, we can easily see how the road is paved for those aiming at manipulating us into overawe to authority: there is nothing our humanoid side would like better than just that. There may, in fact, be lots of reasons why we are so prone to judge the book by the cover and bow to a bloodstained white coat, but certainly not the last of them is that the more we bow the more we escape our own personal responsibility.
Hence, the dreadful success of manipulators in staging what is aimed at becoming “perceived” authority by the final target: us. And judging the book by the cover is in fact more precisely called “Principle of Authority”: things are considered true or false, good or bad, not out of their being actually so, but on the basis of the perceived authority of those saying they are true or false, good or bad. Then the lid of the trap is sealed by our humanoid inclination to make lies become truth, by repeating it one another so much until it becomes an “everybody knows that”. Rest in peace, truth. Or rather, roll in your grave while we turn a deaf ear to the noise.
Sure, manipulators are skilled professionals in “packaging”: busy dressing people and things up in packages designed to induce us to feel a hierarchical abyss between us and them. Sure, the quest for the control of media is part of this war where every bridgehead conquered yields some more power to bomb us with such “packaging”. But sure as well we welcome these bombs with our arms wide open. What they call “adjustment of thought” is rooted in the humanoid crave to escape individual personal responsibility.
