I suppose you'll find examples if I object, but, frankly, I don't know what you're talking about.
More generally, I see the evidence every day that this place is far more influenced by a collaborative ethos than by top-down authority.
And even then we still have occasional problems deciding practical stuff.
I don't think all of the population is authoritarian. But I think enough of the population is for it to be considered a powerful swing-vote influence on democracy.
In the UK at least, most of the population feels utterly disenfranchised and cynical, to the point where even if someone with charisma and genuine integrity appeared in an election race, the reaction would 'Yeah - whatever.'
I don't know enough about France to understand how participatory democracy is over there.
I would say it is nto only your impresion.. it has been proved in serious research (not the kind of pshycho-socio bubble or babble in the media). I would need a link to support tht stuff. I know
There is research about the rate of population and their power narratives... and the authoritative figure or the "once-in-a-while shove it" figure is really relevant for a part of the electorate who votes.
it is really important to recall that the authoritative figure must not be confused with the dictature figure of the only-one--leader-my-way-or-the-high-way Franco/mussolini/stalin style. They are compeltely different. In a sense, somehow opposite.
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
