TODAY'S EPIDEMIC LACK OF RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY These days, the playing field between subordinate and superior has ben equalized to the point of absolute and total anarchy. There is usually a reason why a superior is a superior, and a subordinate is a subordinate, whether its due to differences in education, money, accomplishments, achievement, merit, or inherent individual value. But the recently growing revolution against authority, fueled by anonymous postings on the internet and the ease of suing someone (anyone), have resulted in complete chaos and disorder in the established structure of the world today. There is no more order, no more respect, no more loyalty, and no more growth. Everyone is taught to question authority, even to sabotage it, and this has resulted in a pernicious level of chaos, anarchy, disorder, cacaphony, decay, and destruction of all of our institutions, governments, private and public businesses, bankruptcy, and frivolous litigation. If someone has reached a level of authority in society, then they need to be respected. Whether it is a Police Officer, a Judge, a Professor, a Boss, an Elected Official, or anyone in a position of authority, they should and must be respected, and must be protected by society at large and the institutions which safeguard the people to the fullest extent possible, for the good of humanity. This ability for the masses to depose and harass at will those individuals in a position of authority is an inherent weakness in democracy, and does not exist in Kingdom monarchies, dictatorships, or Communist regimes. This is one of the prices of Freedom, and why Freedom itself is threatened by people who would otherwise destabilize our leaders, business owners, judges, law enforcement officers, professors and teachers, elected officials, and other people of authority who all are charged with the responsibility of safeguarding our Freedoms and contributing to social stability by protecting us from crime, providing our jobs, running the economy, adjudicating our societal disputes, paying our Nation's taxes, educating our youth, and all in all, shouldering the immensely heavy burden that is, running the world. The young people of today were weaned on, almost from birth, a healthy inculcation of the phrase "question authority." but now that anyone and everyone can take down anyone of authority, no matter how much or how little integrity that authority figure may have, that phrase has now run its course. Thomas Jefferson said, "I hold that a little rebellion once in a while is a good thing." But too much rebellion, and too much revolution for the sake of revolting against something, is nothing but terrorism against the overall good, stability, safety, and growth of a free society, and is in itself an abuse of the Freedoms our forefathers and current defenders of liberty fought to preserve. If yesterday's catchphrase was "Question Authority," then today's catchphrase should be "Respect Authority," in order to protect the inerests of the world and its people. Anarchy, disorder, chaos, decay, and the wanton and reckless destruction of our established social institutions, and those who work within those institutions, is in no one's interests but the enemies of that society.