As an anarcho-communist, I have the opinion that humans are naturally cooperative. It's rooted in Kropotkin's book "Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution". Mutual aid, supporting your community as the community supports you, is an evolutionary factor that confers benefits onto species that incorporate it. The meerkat watching out for the rest of the colony. The huge family of geese with 4 breeding pairs of adults and 20+ goslings where the adult geese work in concert to herd the goslings to safety much the same as a sheepdog herds sheep. Communities and troops of the great apes like gorillas and bonobos. But that raises the question, if mutual aid is such a strong evolutionary drive, why and how does authority exist at all? what is the evolutionary advantage to authoritarianism and how does it exist if there is none? So we have the dialectical statement, "Humans are cooperative as its an evolutionary advantage and some humans become authoritarian tyrants who oppress others" it's a contradictory statement that needs to be examined logically and dialectically to be understood and I think I figured it out. People go along with authoritarianism sometimes because of our cooperative nature. Unjust authority takes natural evolutionary impulses towards cooperation and mutual aid and directs it towards some other authority. It's a trojan horse thing, it's best exemplified by a workplace that says "We're not coworkers, we're family" A family isn't just biological, you can have a found family, but in both cases the thing that makes it work is everybody chips in and supports each other. And this continues in the animal world. So when the business says "We're a family", they want the workers to take their cooperative nature and apply it within the workplace, their new "family".
That's where the acceptance of authoritarianism comes in. If you had a non-hierarchical community, and somebody says "Hey we need to get this thing done", you're going to assume that as they're an equal they need you to help them out with it for the sake of the community and of each other So when someone like Trump says "We need to build the wall", the cooperative nature kicks in and people want to help out especially if they agree with his reasons Which means it's not correct to say humans love being "sheep" and love to kneel and to be subservient, it's that humans are disposed to cooperate and an authoritarian loves to tell people what to do People as a whole aren't naturally followers with rare exception, they're naturally cooperative and for the people who become authoritarian, it's as a result usually of some system beyond their control molding them that way and damaging them and if you listen to something like Behind the Bastards you can hear the childhood experiences that shape these people. It's like how we were talking about how billionaires have no way to relate to people there's an advantage to having just one person in the community be a sort of organizer and say where to go, because that's a kind of labor in itself, but it's also corrosive and I think that's where positions of power originally came from. Things have developed from there, and it's not beneficial anymore.