Yeah, I get that. It’s a religion for most people, in the popular sense of how religion is understood. Deconstructing that is an important developmental leap. Reintegrating healthy forms of authority (inner and outer sources) is for me a yet further step of development.
I'm not an activist. I work for my own benefit, and by improving myself, hopefully improve others who interact with me by being a kinder, wiser, more compassionate person.
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Ok, that's a nice and noble goal. I applaud you for it. But I do think my point has been made. This rebelling against authority is usually for our own benefit. It's tribal in-group identification, and a type of virtue signaling, at its best.
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I think I've heard the Canadian psychologist say something almost exactly like that
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At it's worst it's a kind of prolonged adolescence that manifests as a lack of heart and moral ambiguity masquerading as moral superiority. I'm trying to do better then that, and ask all my peers to do likewise.
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What if I said that submitting to authority without questioning the legitimacy of that authority is adolescent and that it manifests as a lack of clarity and moral certitude masquerading as moral superiority.
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I'd say there are different stages of adolescence. My 2 year old is doing the same right now, but it's not the same as teenage rebellion. :)
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There's something distinctly combative about this whole exchange. If you don't mind my pointing it out, I think something about JK rankled you the wrong way and that you're also triggered by people who like JK more than you do. What's up with that?
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It probably has something to do with exiting a particular phase of understanding and still feeling reactive to manifestations of it (of which JK and some of your opinions are prime examples).
So to turn my own argument against myself, this is mainly about me.
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