about 25 years ago, i was iffy on the word "authoritarianism", in seeing how it could be used/interpreted to mean the authority of any who author, and that we each and all could. ... and that of course stands in contrast to the disempowering impositional likely-centralised top-down monstrosity the word may more generally conjure, in corrupted power.
... ... ... ... .. ... ... ... ... ... ... [and maybe i'm due vocabulary improvements here]
... thought occurs after i found myself again fear-quoting "authoritarianism" in this comment: https://iviv.hu/posts/1504955#c4ccea303cef013ccab2723c915ba918
#authoritarianism #etymology #words
#politics #politicialphilosophy #sociology
[ps, also reminds of when sunyata wanted to get an even more pleasant spin word yet than authoritarianism, like they wanted to get a thicker curtain for the man to hide behind. lol, wat.]