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It's easy to define authoritarian order, but it's much more difficult to define authoritarian chaos.

I rather liked Yahtzee's "Differently Morpheous" because it showed that there were two sides to the coin: On one hand the insane old school authoritarianism that mindlessly follows old paradigms, but also insane new school authoritarianism that mindlessly rejects old paradigms.

In the book, the big point was that by mindlessly turning your brain off and just following any ideology you will end up wrong because reality isn't that clean. Some of the monsters in the book turned out to be good, but some turned out to be evil and so in that way both groups were correct, but they were also both incorrect.

That being said, I agree with what you just said. An observation I made is that people will appeal to whatever the power of the moment is. When the Church was the most powerful thing in the land, people would align themselves with that. Today wokeness appears to be the most powerful thing in the land, so many people (and organizations) align themselves with that. If tomorrow carrot farmers became the highest power in the land, look at all the people and organizations that magically find ways to explain why the thing they want ultimately helps the carrot farmers.

I saw an interview a few years back with an employment lawyer who made a fantastic case that if the workers are busy fighting themselves over their differences, they won't band together to fight the company.