WiP, apologies.
I'm going to tell you about what is meant by authority.
What is authority not? Authority is not just simple power, government, leadership, globalism, the party or the state.
In its root form authority is:
the dominant entity acting as a proxy for the greatest masse of people in that time and place
Authority is almost always you and I acting collectively to enforce our own tribal story onto our own people and any other authority which is trying to gain ascendance. It is a permanent competition for power, within society which demands a hierarchy to power it.
I'm not saying this is a good thing or a bad thing or that something needs to be done to stop it or more of it needs to be enforced. I am saying that the entire world is unconscious of the entire activity, that it is root cause of all the great social problems and that no one at all is paying attention to it, especially the experts and intellectuals.
It might actually be simply the great masse of people as a collective who is the present authority. This is typically the case.
This authority has a tendency to project itself onto whatever is acting as a proxy to escape from its sins - the state for example, Trump is hitler or Kweir Stalin is a traitor and so on and so on. That is the actual purpose of setting up a proxy. The proxy allows the authority - the people essentially, to quickly escape from their obligations and duties if those annoying things can all be thrown onto the state for example, masquerading as authority.
It's an escape.
So authority is you and I as individuals, closing ranks as a collective, with our own narrative which we must all follow religiously, against whoever we have decided is our enemy. Which is typically an identical kind of authority but with a different form of narrative.
Nature commands these authorities. By making the most efficient scaling configuration, 2 in size. That is, eventually, within any social hierarchy, there will be just 2 competing authorities. No more than 2 are required to make social hierarchies function in the most effective way. There may sometimes be a single authority and other many more than 2. But these configurations are temporary and costly. Eventually they will collapse and the society in that time and place will settle up or down to 2.
I've just told you about what is meant by authority.
It's not just simple power, government, leadership, the party or the state.
Authority is you and I acting collectively to enforce our own tribal story into our own people and other authorities who try to gain ascendance.