It is these dependent, obedience-trained, powerless weaklings who submit to authority. In any case, obedience must be just about the greatest of all evils. Obedience is the surrender of personal power. Within the ambit of that definition, those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men. The signers of the Declaration of Independence risked their lives and their fortunes.
Disobedience creates civilization.
Obedience causes its collapse. It is experienced and remembered as something alien, something not really our own. They come from outside yourself. The source of a command is something alien. The source is recognized as something stronger than yourself.