On obedience

In a school or indeed any system in which one human finds him or herself above another, obedience is a crucial issue. Often a teacher will consider (s)he has won when the student complies. But is this really a victory. IS the docility of the student really beneficial for humanity?

It is in our earliest youth that we learn to be docile, to be obedient. Obedience is one of the fundamental values taught by parents , teachers and society in general. We are conditioned to believe that obedience makes you a better person. This is false. Obedient, docile, servile human beings are exactly what keeps the system running. Without our compliance to their rules the entire system will come crashing down as cog after gear after cog collapse. This is why the system has become conditioned to support and encourage those that obey, that conform, that comply while marginalising and destroying those that do not.

I talk as if the system where a living organism: it is in many ways. Societies grow and are destroyed, to be replaced by newer ones that are more efficient than the older ones. Eventually these are replaced and thus a process of naturally societal elimination occurs. Those societies unable to compete will eventually disappear, engulfed in the better society or smashed up and destroyed. Thus societies which have encouraged their members to obey and conform to the society have survived and eventually taken over.

This is why we must fight extra hard against conformism and obedience. We must at every turn oppose the system. BY disobeying we encourage others to disobey, which in turn encourages others. Thus the spirit spreads throughout a population like wildfire and eventually the system is brought down. In practice though, what do these disobediences represent? These can be vandalism (graffiti and so on), civil disobedience and refusal to comply with authority figures and ‘superiors’: police officers, teachers and so on.

A note of warning however: doing things that jeopardises your ability to help anyone in the near or distant future is not a Good Thing.

-RzBz

From Issue #4 published April 5