This is not disobedience in the negative way as people know, but it is disobedience to those that abuse power and those that try to drown the voices of those with new agendas and ideas. Innovations and discoveries in science, philosophy and every other field were as a result of disobedience to those who insisted on pre-existing knowledge. If people had not been courageous to disobey, then society would be devoid of progress. Fromm says that just as disobedience marked the start of human history, obedience might as well mark the end of this history
This is not disobedience in the negative way as people know, but it is disobedience to those that abuse power and those that try to drown the voices of those with new agendas and ideas. Innovations and discoveries in science, philosophy and every other field were as a result of disobedience to those who insisted on pre-existing knowledge. If people had not been courageous to disobey, then society would be devoid of progress. Fromm says that just as disobedience marked the start of human history, obedience might as well mark the end of this history