`Authority' and `Rules'

 Some folk, maybe feeling something lacking from their lives, develop a strong need
 for `authority' - either to respect (worship - as an extreme), or to wield against
 others (abuse - with perverts, warmongers and genocides as an extreme).

 In fact you'll probably have noticed the very strong correlation of both types
 with the well-known cases of those extremes in history.

 Yet, because we humans tend to compartmentalize things (pack them away, out of mind)
 it's often not realized the same process happens in all human social structures - 
 like the law, medicine, and science, among others

 Here's a mail at another site-page
 start quote
 "What we can see, from repeated cycles in _all_ cultures, is that the institutionalizing
 of the search for data / knowledge / wisdom leads to some fakers opting for pretence,
 superstition and abuse - merely to keep power and wealth. This habit of falling-back on
 `talltales' to cling to privilege is probably where most suspicions of `cultural elites'
 come from - and they're well-founded suspicions.
 [check << Buckle's talltales >> in Google]

 [Don't think modern science is immune to creating `priesthoods' -
  try << BadSci.txt >> in Google]"
 end quote
 from www.perceptions.couk.com/teachtest.html#cult if you want the thread.

 So, are the `rebels' always right?

 Nope - even the best rebellious minds can fall into the trap of making their own
 `rules'.  That's just what happened to Galileo - who was against `superstitions'
 of the Church, but unfortunately also ignored useful things which folk-tales
 could have told him about the Moon's effects - like tides.

 Although his own daughter was (successfully) planting their vineyard `by the Moon'
 Galileo had brainwashed himself into thinking that any mention of the Moon had to
 be `superstitious nonsense'.

 So poor old Galileo, who'd done all the experiments and gotten all the evidence
 (which was later used by Newton), spent his last years struggling to make a workable
 `Theory of Gravity' while the facts were right before his eyes - in the tides.

 Suppose we should question all `rules' - even this one.

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