Sorry Shaun, I’m probably being overly harsh here. Keep on keeping on with your rebellion. May it reach exhaustion as quickly as possible. 
good questions. better than formal institutional authority is the earned authority of peer-acclaim. "First among equals" seems like a useful model.
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What is “first among equals”?
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e.g. the Pope is technically just the Bishop of Rome
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That's a nice idea. In theory. :)
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that has a defect too though, which is that what people will acclaim is not necessarily what's good or even what those people need.
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healthy communities pick healthy leaders even in the absence of formal systems. unhealthy communities pick unhealthy leaders despite the presence of formal systems.
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Krishnamurti say that he was part of an unhealthy community and realized that he could not lead them into health. He could point them towards the right path, but they had to walk it themselves.
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One of JK's more famous sound-bites: "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." I think that's EXACTLY what we're discussing right now.
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Here's the core difference in how we're thinking: I'm not looking at this as a binary, but rather as phases of development, wherein once one comes out of the phase of rejecting authority, they can reintegrate it in new ways.
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