There was also the opposite concept, that of obedience, and the consequence for a society which goes along, not belonging our leaders to a set of ethics and measures of justice. What concered Erich Fromm, as a human and sociologist, activist, was the advent of the 'Atomic Age' and what destruction and terror it would bring along with it. That of society could go on as if in cruise mode, obeying the dictates or suggestions of authority, those in power, leading s into a type of mass suicide, what with the threat of nuclear weapons ushering in the concept of 'mutually assured destruction' (MAD). This was refered to as 'heteronomous obedience', submission "to the person, institution or other power structures. This imples abdication of my autonomy
