I have it from high authority

Can we really just dispense with the word 'authority' itself.  That may be a nice and easy way to begin dismanteling the forces of authority.  So that we collectively begin to fashion ourselves as better receivers and processors of information rather than relying on the world outside of ourselves.  Can we somehow poke so many holes in every institution that it looks like the swiss cheese that all institutions are?  So that we can begin to realize that it is we ourselves that must do the hard work of fashioning reality and that there are no sources outside of ourselves competent to translate reality for us perfectly and reliably?  Even worse, many who turn to others for guidance are the easiest prey as they have no discerning capacities.  Why dont' we teach that?  A perfect lesson.   How NOT to follow.  Disagree with me please i say to my students.  Find something, anything to disagree with!!!!  Challenge me.  Please!!  I will love you for it (ok, I love em anyway)

So that we learn this lesson well and so that we then wake up and question EVERY thing EVERY minute and develop that great discerning consciousess that actually learns how to think?

So that this thinking consciuosness produces and produces and produces new information all the time and then becomes alive with its new found power and new found authority and the ever emerging world flowing from the font of INNER growing capacity.

Sure when we are young, we needed trusted adults to guide us.  But even they have to be warned of how full of **** we adults can be too.  But...I feel the institutions themselves are doing a good enough job of destroying their own authority.  Through their narrowness, or through their greed, and through their ignorance.  The kids are picking up on this.

Anyhow, just felt like attacking authority this fine morning.  Right now, i can't think of a better target. (btw and fyi, I'm not saying all those in positions of authority are authoritarian, rigid, robotic, just that the vast majority are un 'enlightenend' 'despots' ruling by decree by fiat, or whim, or otherwise narrowly contrived nonsense--and even doneso with a dash of superiority to add insult to the original injury)

Ken Wilber, an enlightened author, has said, "we have no BLOODY idea how or why people develop".  And I hope I'm not misquoting or mischaracterizing his intention.  well...I can think of one very big way to help development.  Take off the freegin blinders we put on people which encapsulates them inside a hall of mirrors by multiple and conflicting authority figures who threaten them into submission or con them into the belief of their superiority by destroying the fascade of their authority.  DECONSTRUCT the idea of authority and authors.  At least in the society we have now which is NOT dharmic in anyway, but much more maya or adharmic.  At least give them the tools to see WHO is better to listen to and who is not. 

We have a case now, where out and out charletons are running the show.  THAT is a barrier to development and a lock on the conventional mind that restricts the birth of an actual mind and soul.