Loss of Respect For Authorities

Growing up, I was taught to respect authorities, which was very important in our culture. For example, my parents had to bow to their teachers when they were in school. I have often looked up to teachers, staff, rulers, service people, and other authority figures. However, I began to lose respect for authorities in my teens.

I had encountered some unpleasant teachers, staff, and workers as a child, but still saw authority figures as respectable until jr. high, when I had several mean, rude, picky, biased, impatient, and intimidating teachers and school staff. Some of them yelled at students for asking questions while others played favorites. There were also those who were picky and inconsistent in rules and grading, and were always trying to find faults though they refused to admit their mistakes. When students were bullied and teased, teachers and staff often blamed the victim, but when the troublemakers suffered, they helped them and let them get away with things. From my jr. high experiences, I began to lose respect for authorities.

I lost more in high school when I faced more teachers and staff who were intimidating, baised, impatient, rude, condescending, deceitful, stereotypical, and blaming the victim. Even worse, they wished students who behave better, but when students do so and do not fit the teenage stereotypes, they labled them as "weird" and "crazy," and said things like, "You should be at the age where you…"  It was finally in 12th grade, I complained that those were only stereotypes, and that everyone has different opinions.  I eventually found out that some teachers and staff who acted nice and friendly towards us would talk and do other things behind our backs.  Some even set up situations to get students in trouble. Again, if they were wrong, they denied it. I came to the realization that authorities are not always to be respected. 

Since my first days in college, I encountered rude, arrogant, and deceitful professors and staff on campus and in dorms. These hypocrites refused to admit their mistakes, and were often poor role models for us. Though I started out respecting my RA, professors, TAs, administrators, and other academic and residential staff, I did so less and less as the four years flew by. I  figured out that even professors could be as nasty and improper as students.  In the dorms, the staff documented everything residents said and did, violating the freedom of speech and making it a communist country. My first year I had been unaware that my RA was biased and often breaking rules, cooperating with troublemakers, and doing other unpleasant things. I eventually also learned that the resident director was rude, impatient, deceitful, biased, and condescending. With an evil personality, he often lied and had too much time.  Instead of going after those who really broke rules and caused trouble, he found sneaky ways to harass innocent people and distress them. With all this going on I decided to move out of the dorms after my third year.

The loss of respect was not to end with moving out of the dorms. I still had to put up with bad professors and other authority figures, including the police officers who also had too much time. Instead of chasing and arresting the real criminals, they pull people over and write tickets for harmless traffic violations. To make things worse, they were rude. hypocritic, and unfair hotshots who often singled out women, minorities, and students. I had been losing respect for them all my life, and after being cited myself, I completely lost it.

At TheOneRing.Com, I ran into hypocritical and biased moderators who singled people out, abused their powers, broke laws, and denied that they were wrong. I discovered that they would choose victims, create unclear, subjective, and unfair laws for them, and violate their freedom of speech. They stalked the victims, forbade them speak to other people for about the issues, refused to explain the whole picture, and sought chances to ban them. That was how I ended up with an unfair ban, and refused to return. Since then, I have barely respected authority.  I later participated in other online communities, and in some of them, I faced the same problem.  There was an admin who complained about unfair and subjective standards on a community, mind games, and people being unable to tell apart fact and fiction in roleplay (RP). To make things worse, he kept attacking the admin and help destroy the community. Then at his own community, that hypocrite made unfair, unclear, and subjective rules. When I made a mistake from confusion, he made a mean RP post. I took it as fiction, and followed the characters’ feelings and actions only for him to remove my access to RPs without a warning. I then realized that he was the one unable to tell apart fact and fiction, playing mind games, and trying to attack me through RP. I eventually learned that he was narrow-minded, often trying to stir up trouble and keep them going, and upset about the what happened at that other community, so he took it out on me. He also drank and abused drugs. From that, I was glad that I no longer had much respect for authorities.

Throughout my life, I’ve learned about abusive parents and guardians as well as unpleasant bosses, dictators, right-wing politicians, and other bad rulers, such as Hitler, Khomeni, Hussein, and Deng. There people gave me even worse impresisons on authority figures. I also didn’t like President Clinton, especially after the Clinton-Lewinsky case. First Lady Clinton is the one who deserves the credit, and should run for U.S. President. Governor Wilson grew more and more right-wing as well, and I’m glad he never had a chance for presidency. I never voted for the right-wing religious fanatic and "spoiled rich kid," President Bush, Jr. either. He is just not qualified.

Many authority figures are not qualified for their positions. They lie and cheat their way through the ranks so they could abuse their powers.  Now, I almost hate authorities.