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Authority recognized and respected as such by the masses can have only three possible sources—force, religion, or the action of a superior intelligence;

The Anarchist Handbook

Michael Malice, Murray Rothbard, Max Stirner, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, David Friedman, Peter Kropotki...

Chesterton’s fence: The idea that reforms should not be made to a system until the reasoning behind its current state is understood. Originally described by G. K. Chesterton in 1929.

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century

Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein

Experts have their place and can be extremely valuable in those places, this no doubt being one reason for the old expression, “Experts should be on tap, not on top.” For broader social decision-making, however, experts are no substitute for systemic processes which engage innumerable factors on which no given individual can possibly be expert, and engage the 99 percent of consequential knowledge scattered in fragments among the population at large and coordinated systemically during the process of their mutual accommodations to one another’s demand and supply.

Intellectuals and Society

Thomas Sowell

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