I'm starting to think more and more that people are hardwired to respect authority no matter what it says. The banality of evil sort of thing I guess. Things li

I'm starting to think more and more that people are hardwired to respect authority no matter what it says. The banality of evil sort of thing I guess. Things like the constitution, bill of rights, and the more or less democratic political system I (in the USA) respect is in a big way just a tribal concept people mindlessly evoke to reaffirm their belonging to the tribe that is the "USA". There does not seem to be a lot of digging into what these things actually mean or believing in the ideas contained within these things. Governments can go around forcibly installing democracy all around the world and staging coups when the democratic leaders that aren't strategically useful are elected around the world and erode all the rights "enshrined" within the constitution in order to protect us. Holding our rulers to same rule of law as the people they rule was a massive leap forward in social organization. However it seems that people don't really want to have to distrust their leaders enough to apply it to them, because that would be taken as an attack on the identity of the tribe as a whole. /rant