Horizontal authority

Every month, youtuber Ralph Müller delivers his scathing analysis of a typical contemporary phenomenon. This time on what he considers to be a strange form of authority.

In his book Un monde sans limites, Jean-Pierre Lebrun argues that the scientific vision of the world implies a shift in the notion of authority.

The first reason for this is that the authority of science is independent of enunciation. Indeed, the very nature of the scientific ideal is to negate itself as discourse, i.e. to make all traces of subjectivity disappear from its discourse. From then on, legitimacy no longer emanates from the authority of the enunciator, but from that conferred by the internal coherence of the statements.

In our world, the master-subject relationship has been replaced by a knowledge-subject relationship; the compass is disembodied knowledge. This gives rise to a situation