There is not authority, only obedience.

What people think of as authority can be one two things: - Respect for experience in voluntary relationships - Ability of unleashing brutal violence without having to fear any consequences in involuntary relationship like between individuals and state actors So I guess if you, like Neo, you have ...

belief in authority amounts to effective authority though so its a distinction without a difference. also, many Mcmericans have been roped into the U.S. citizen/U.S. person legal status which subjects them to the de facto "authority" of the powers that stand in place of their own arrogant entitleme...