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> But many of us experienced "listen to me because I said so" as children, and continue to experience that in school and into adulthood in the workplace. It's m
by hotnfresh 3y ago
> But many of us experienced "listen to me because I said so" as children, and continue to experience that in school and into adulthood in the workplace. It's meaningless, but many neurotypical people neither notice that it's wrong or understand why it's wrong
This would not be perhaps the most-universal example of arbitrary authority, played with in countless pieces of mainstream media, if neurotypicals were as you suppose they are.
I think you need to go back to the drawing board on this one.
- digging 3y agoOk, somebody else explain why neurotypical people are content to obey arbitrary authority when they don't have to. I surely shouldn't have included that bit of speculation because all the replies to my comment have nothing to do with the actual point of the comment.
- roughly 3y ago> are content to obey arbitrary authority when they don't have to. There’s two assumptions in this sentence that are frequently unwarranted. Additionally, sometimes it’s both easier and less costly to let certain things go. This is may be one of the areas of, well, neurodivergence: “it’s going to be a pain in the ass to fight whatever the hell this is, and I don’t care enough to do it.”
- hotnfresh 3y agoThe most likely explanation, I think, is that they dole out their fucks-given very differently than you.
- RoyalHenOil 3y agoConsider the possibility that, as someone who is not neurotypical, you may not be accurately reading the contentment level of people who are neurotypical.
- Jtsummers 3y ago"Content" is an assumption on your part. Higher tolerance for bullshit is also a plausible explanation. Or a difference in emotional intelligence and the corresponding understanding of (and willingness to play) the political game to get through the day. I'm not "content" with my management, but I know it's temporary and that I don't want to be unemployed in the interim and my pay is good enough that I'm not ready to nope out of here (if the pay was worse, or my fu funds weren't spent a couple years ago and not yet recovered, it would be a different situation).
- newZWhoDis 3y agoOne problem have with your statements is that blind subservience to arbitrary authority is something I see more of in “on the spectrum” types than “normies”. I see it in both groups, and I don’t think being “on the spectrum” or not has anything to do with this trait.
- digging 3y agoTake that up with the author then! My mistake is only that I tried to understand their writing.
- FireBeyond 3y ago> Ok, somebody else explain why neurotypical people are content to obey arbitrary authority when they don't have to. Are you able to explain why some neurodivergent people are content to obey arbitrary authority when they don't have to? I feel like it's almost a little gatekeeping there. If they are content, are they "sufficiently" neurodivergent?
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> Ok, somebody else explain why neurotypical people are content to obey arbitrary authority when they don't have to. Here you are: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment