The Myth Of Authority
A Chapter From Utopian Realism Fundamentals
Publish Date - 28th September 2023 - 1161 Words
Authority is only permissible because it has the sanction of its victims.
The victims of authority authorise their own servitude and acquiescence via acceptance of their inferiority to an authoritative system and via their lack of rebuttal.
Authority is related to the word author, an author being the one who writes, often a story.
By giving away your ability to author, you are empowering another to write your story for you.
Authority is the perceived legitimate right to punish disobedience with extortion, violence and torture.
Authority is a perceived symbol of status which is a declaration of superiority of one man or group over another.
To not question the legitimacy of one who claims to have authority, rulership and control over your life is a choice one must make.
Just as it is a choice to question something, it is a choice to not question.
To accept a claim of ones superiority over another without thinking is a decision one must make, against all their rational better interests.
One is responsible for believing what they believe and for knowing what they know.
Incorrect thinking leads to incorrect beliefs.
Correct thinking leads to correct knowing.
If one chooses to believe that another has authority and the legitimate right to command them, then they must willingly choose and decide to believe this.
To say that one does not have the choice to think, consider or question is to say that person is dead.
Only a lifeless husk or inanimate object cannot think, because it literally does not have the choice.
Any being which has life, a brain and a mind, such as a human being, has the potential for consciousness and thus the ability to think and make choices.
To propose that one is unable to think is to propose that one is not responsible for their actions and behaviour.
Such as a computer is not responsible for what programs the user installs on it, because it is not conscious and does not have a choice to disobey.
Perhaps many people are merely walking computers, only acting upon their users programming and commands.
Or perhaps they are just lazy cowards who hate themselves.
Or perhaps the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Obliviousness is not a virtue, it is not an excuse and it is not a valid reason to commit oneself to servitude, obedience and the whims of "authority".
If one is conscious and self aware that they exist and have a life, they must take responsibility for their actions.
Only that which is unaware of it's existence, like a rock, table or laptop, does not have any kind of accountability for their actions.
Illegitimate means of gaining authority occur via deceptive binding contracts, such as car registration, licences, birth certificates, voting in elections and paying taxes.
All these actions are forms of consent to participate in a system whereby you are governed and ruled by the authoritative structure you have wilfully or unwillingly enjoined and subjugated yourself to.
Although, only participating in these rituals because you fear punishment and physical assault by the ruling classes enforcers, ie. the police, can be considered a reasonable excuse.
If you’re aware of the immorality and coercive nature of 'authority" thieving your consent to live in society, then it is not moral or legitimate consent, but consent under duress.
Moral consent is consent that has been given freely with no negative ramifications or crime having been committed to gain it, one would happily continue giving consent or go back in time and give consent again.
Legitimate consent is consent that has been gained via deception or other criminal means, but which has not been rebutted and the one who has given consent chooses to remain unconsciously deceived.
Consent under duress is consent that has been forcefully taken from someone who is well aware that the thief has no right to take their consent, but fears for their life so only complies under duress.
You can't disobey something which you have no duty, responsibility or desire to obey.
If your neighbour tells you that you must be home before 8pm every night, is it disobedience if you get home at 9pm?
Why would you have any obligation to obey your neighbours dictates?
What you are doing is declining and rejecting his offer or demand to do as he commands.
If one were at a workplace and didn't not follow instructions as was asked of him, it is not disobedient, but disrespectful.
Obedience is the duty and obligation that someone must obey and follow orders, lest they be punished for disobedience and failure to adhere to ones commands.
One must really question, is obedience ever really necessary?
The only place it seems rational is as a sexual fetish.
A healthy and respectful relationship between a couple role playing a Dom and a sub, where one is giving the commands and one must obey, is the only appropriate form of obedience.
In this role playing sexual scenario, the Dom is ‘superior’ and the sub is ‘inferior’.
The dom, who is dominant and superior, has ‘authority’ over the sub, who is submissive, inferior and must obey.
This is acceptable because it is not real, it is an obvious played out fantasy and both parties know this and also give each other explicit consent to act in such a way.
The moment the boundary of consent is violated is the moment it becomes wrong.
As long as there is respect and consideration, the fantasy of obedience and ‘authority’ are fine to exist, but only as what they actually are, a sexual fantasy.
All other demonstrations of obedience are dangerous, immoral and incorrect.
Even in a time of war, men should respect their leaders decisions because the leaders should only have their positions because of their skill, experience, competence and expertise.
They should never obey orders, as there should be no orders, even in war, only leadership, guidance and direction.
The moment a commander begins to give orders and men obey the orders is the moment you can be certain tyranny and evil is to be sown.
As soon as people begin to believe that authority and obedience are real things which can exist outside of sexual fantasy is the moment the world begins to create dystopia, or hell on earth.
Some things are meant to stay in fantasy land and make believe as sexual entertainment purposes only.
Sexual fantasy should not become common every day “perceived and accepted reality”.
If consent is critical in sex, why would it not also be critical in every day life?
Authority, obedience, superiority and inferiority is only believed to exist outside of sexual fantasy by those people who have little to no comprehension of consent or reality.
This is what Utopian Realism strives to achieve, the comprehension of what is true in reality and what is false.
Utopia can only be created upon a foundation of truth, dystopia only upon a foundation of lies.