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Re:Why can’t we mandate anything? Global resurgence of patri... by exo-pla-net on Monday September 06, 2021 @11:35AM (#28434723)
The article doesn't claim that distrust is recent. It claims the opposite.

It claims that people historically have seen strongmen as the "legitimate" authority. As a corollary, authority from anything other than strongmen was illegitimate.

We've managed to get many people to believe in systems and organizations instead of strongmen. But for various reasons, we've recently regressed.

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Re:Why can’t we mandate anything? Global resurgence of patri... by nicolas_t on Monday September 06, 2021 @12:06PM (#28435079)
Yes but they claim that the rise of bureaucracy and legitimate authority corresponds to the rise of the modern state, so I might be mistaken but it seemed to me that the intent was to contrast to earlier times than the 20th century?
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