I haven't the slightest clue.

I never went to college, and I'm only beginning to understand just how little I know about anything.

But I think I'm somewhere trying to examine the differences between enlightenment and romantic thought that converged together to build fascistic philosophy so that I could maybe through some different experiences render it hypocritical and self-defeating.

...and I realized once again how little I understand about anything.

Yes and that's the question I'm dealing with, the innate fascist, or the innate sadomasochism inside of humanity.

I think this Fromm book is exactly what I'm looking for. Great suggestion.

Thank you for the reading suggestions!

I guess at the heart of my inquiry are maybe questions of people's sometimes innate clinging to rule, but is it really innate? Or is clinging to rule a societal, or family indoctrination?

We understand the naturalistic fallacy that just because something "IS" doesn't mean it's desirable, and we understand that the "OUGHT" can't be empirically measured against the "IS". If slavery 'IS' the rule we 'OUGHT' not obey that rule.

I almost just wrote "we have to survive" as contention against "we have to obey the rules", but in further thinking, we don't even have to do that. We don't have to do anything that is not personally desired. There may be societal consequences, but all of that goes without saying.

Maybe I'm digging into what and why do we desire? Ugh, I don't know. I was just hoping people much smarter than I have dealt with this lol

Hum, maybe I'm overthinking the question?

Autonomy seems deeply desired by almost everyone in some aspect or another, but less desired in different areas by different people for different reasons. Please pardon me, I'm an ol' dense Kentucky boy with very limited philosophical knowledge- but I'm trying to dig into the heart of why the King is valued initially and almost always outgrown.

Is a desire for personal autonomy the same as carrying the weight of the universe?