Question Authoritarianism

If you hooked people up to a machine measuring emotional reactions to words "authoritarianism" would probably show strong, negative associations. However, it only means farming-out your autonomy and it feels good, like a return to the innocence and freedom of childhood.

In childhood we farm everything out to our parents or it is done for us until the age of reason. But, for grownups, authoritarianism is selling your soul. Adults are supposed to be responsible as individuals, in our traditions as Christians and democrats, to the extent that we are either of these. 

Authoritarianism should not only be questioned it should be instinctively resisted.