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No.23 Donating Member (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-03-09 08:13 PM
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18. You cannot put the brakes on authoritarianism in our culture without...
Edited on Fri Apr-03-09 08:22 PM by No.23
addressing where the seeds of authoritarianism are first planted: in our homes and in our schools.

The moment that you demand a child to value the voice of an external authority figure in place of his own internal authority... is the moment that you're creating a codependency on external authority figures.

Our desire to follow authoritarians doesn't come from thin air.

P.S. Statist socialism, or the only kind of socialism that has a historical record, is an excellent example of... yep, you guessed it... leftist authoritarianism. The bugger doesn't only grow on the right side of the garden.
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