Authority is a social construct

[hydrogen]

I was thinking about me living in the United Kingdom and how everyone including myself was so obedient to authority, and I thought about it for a moment... in school people are obedient to the teachers and the teachers are obedient to the principle and the principle to the local education board and them to the local government and the local government to the parliament and the parliament to the Queen...

The Queen or the royal family are a result of knights and barons from 1000CE who had a few swords and steel armour, so they are who I'm technically being obedient to if my teacher gives me homework or a detention..

[AgentOfChaos]

Careful now, don't get too deep or you may drown.

[Tanker]

This thread is too intellectual for most Snetters their brain can not take it

[BigRedBook]

The parliament is obedient to big business, and they are obedient to no authority.

[CushiticReflections]

My professor mentioned in a few lectures the Western education system was influenced by Germany's. It was believed that Germany's compulsory education trained students to become accustomed to being subordinates and obedient to a superior. This served the purpose of moulding future generations of subservient mine and factory workers and civil servants. Most importantly, it increased discipline among soldiers who attended these schools. So it's interesting that you would reflect on this, as the very purpose of the present education system is modelled after something that was formed for that very purpose.

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The political motivations of the King of Prussia[edit]
Seeking to replace the controlling functions of the local aristocracy, the Prussian court attempted to instill social obedience in the citizens through indoctrination. Every individual had to become convinced, in the core of his being, that the King was just, his decisions always right, and the need for obedience paramount.[citation needed]
The schools imposed an official language, to the prejudice of ethnic groups living in Prussia. The purpose of the system was to instill loyalty to the Crown and to train young men for the military and the bureaucracy. As the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte, a key influence on the system, said, "If you want to influence [the student] at all, you must do more than merely talk to him; you must fashion him, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will."

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