Just about everybody is familiar with Timothy Leary’s encouragement to “Question Authority” but several of the faux rebels who sport those two words on T-Shirts or bumper stickers or screen savers don’t seem to live up to them.
The expression should be modified to “Question ALL Authority” regardless of their political affiliation. Question authority would mean:
# Question everything your teachers tell you. Teachers are part of the forces of conformity in any society and should NEVER be trusted to tell the truth.
# Question every political officeholder and every candidate for those offices. Those people are seeking the power to inflict their will upon you and have the full apparatus of the government as a club to beat you over the head with.
# Question the clergy of ALL religions. Such people often put blind faith in a collection of irrational absurdities. Continue reading
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