Yes for sure, but just because we all like to follow sometimes doesn't mean we need to do so without any criticism of those figures. People who follow without a

Yes for sure, but just because we all like to follow sometimes doesn't mean we need to do so without any criticism of those figures. People who follow without any analysis are setting themselves up to harm their own culture because it's also part of human nature that some of us are power hungry sadists and genocidal egoists who just want to exploit anyone who doesn't support us. That fear is how some unquestioning followers understand that power works due to trauma, so they can neatly sidestep a lot of emotional processing by worshipping an authoritarian leader and just hope that their purity remains intact through the purges. In fact there is an alternative but it requires hard work to achieve.