Hope this flows OK..

How do you react as an anti-authoritarian when people claim you are being "authoritarian" or "statist". Or when people claim,well, that people like us are "being preachy".


Do they even understand what authority is? or do we need to redefine it? Or do only anarchists understand the difference between your boss exploiting you and, for example, one pulling a child out of the road if they are about to be hit by a car (or simply shouting out).


Is it the non-spontaneous nature of Authority that they are somehow blind or addicted to, as if they can't make decisons on their own?Or are people so sick of being told what to do all the time they are unwilling to differentiate between orders and advice?


I think the point is that because some people are so selfish, to the point of living in their own world and understanding everything from their perspective only, and because there are so many of them that a kind of self-aware individualism is inevitable in some people,such as myself.


This is different from selfish-objectivism or the lack of self-awareness that
results from/ leads to worshipping a fictional entity, such as money and nation states, or the Queen of England.


Wage slavery is hardly individualistic in any meaningful way if you have to work every waking hour in a job you hate just to keep a roof over your head. Surely respect for one's own individuality requires one to have the self-awareness to respect that of other's?