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Originally Posted by Thankful Jane
Hi Ohio,
I want to add a little more to my above response to your questions. By absolute submission to authority, I don't mean that everyone under the hierarchy is necessarily carrying out such submission, because there may be levels of passive resistance present. I think a better way for me to say it would be to say that the leadership system is one which expects absolute submission. If the expected submission is not given at any point, the system will carry out discipline or punishment.
Isn't this what was present among us in the LCs?
Thankful Jane
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TJ, I am not so sure. "Absolute submission to authority" does not exactly describe what I witnessed. I can say with certainty that when a leader or someone appears to be a "rival" to one's authority, then the "nasty of nasties" comes out. Sometimes brothers are "bullied" just to reinforce the leader's authority.
Hope's experience seems to confirm this. Maybe he can confirm this.