Your belief in rulers has kept you stuck within an earlier developmental stage. You have not come to terms with childhood impulses and the shock of authority on the system. You have not overcome the poor treatment you have received since you were birthed into this world.

Thus, you remain hitched to the notion that violent parents are always needed. You have not overcome the essential crisis of trust versus mistrust. Paradoxically, your heart tells you to mistrust all authority, but in a confused act of desperation you continue to trust all people who represent authority.

And you battle this trauma throughout life.

Love of Authority is a Byproduct of the Abuse we Suffered; Break Free of It

It is a tragic scenario based on the dysfunctional abuse we all suffered; but if you consider this truth, it may allow you to break free and grow into the adulthood of anarchism.

I realize this is painful and humiliating to hear, because I suffered this psychological battle of anarchism versus familial servitude. And so I am not trying to be ugly. I just want to help everyone overcome the immaturity and cultural dogmas regarding authority.

For humanity to progress, we must all grow. We must all change.

So bear freedom aloft, break away from all shackles, and realize your adulthood...realize how powerful you are as an individual. Bear aloft the banner of freedom, and reject those who want to create a continuation of your abuse.

Consider the words of anarchist Voltarine De Cleyre:

“Subvert the social and civil order! Aye, I would destroy, to the last vestige, this mockery of order, this travesty upon justice! Break up the home? Yes, every home that rests on slavery! Every marriage that represents the sale and transfer of the individuality of one of its parties to the other! Every institution, social or civil, that stands between man and his right; every tie that renders one a master, another a serf; every law, every statute, every be-it-enacted that represents tyranny; everything you call American privilege that can only exist at the expense of international right.

Now cry out, "Nihilist-disintegrationist !"

Say that I would isolate humanity, reduce society to its elemental state, make men savage! It is not true. But rather than see this devastating, cankering, enslaving system you call social order go on, rather than help to keep alive the accursed institutions of Authority, I would help to reduce every fabric in the social structure to its native element.”― Voltairine de Cleyre, The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader

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My name is Sterlin. Follow me @sterlinluxan and Psychologic-Anarchist. I also run the Psychologic-Anarchist Facebook page and produce many YouTube videos. My interests lie in the intersection of counseling psychology and anarchism. I write about the depredations of psychiatry, and also the new philosophy of compassionate anarchism. We have a large community devoted to discussing psychology and relational voluntaryism.