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I have sometimes described America today as an "obedience culture." The phrase refers to the fact that, beneath the specifics of the largely pointless debates on any topic you care to name, those who purport to speak on behalf of the values of "civilization" and "order" -- that is, those who contend they and only they are the true defenders of Western civilization generally -- insist on the primacy of one virtue above all others: obedience to authority.
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http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2010/07/wikileaks-resistance-genuine-heroes-and_29.html
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