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I've never really understood how people can simultaneously behave as though that obedience is the most important thing and still claim to honour freedom.

I don't think liberals fail to understand "that the culture of obedience finds self-direction a challenge (an insult) to the preference for following the directions of others," I think we generally fail to understand authoritarian followers themselves. As in, why the hell would anybody waste time being a drone when they could be over here doing their own thing like the rest of us? That's your basic openminded anti-authoritarian in a nutshell. Also, there's the added point that very many of us over here on the left are not huge into doing things because they're socially expected, whereas authoriatarians are all about doing what the socially-constructed authorities prescribe for the social system.

I can understand authoritarian leaders pretty well, because getting someone else to do what you want them to is a trip, but taking orders because it's the done thing? Horrors.