Tag: Bad Authority

• November 25, 2011

  On murmuring, bad authority, and the abdication of responsibility

  Murmuring and the Articulation of a Grievance Over the past week, I have been discussing the nature of good authority, the education of those expressing disquietude, and the challenges posed by individuals dissatisfied with the habitual exercise of institutional power. I suggested that, far from being byzantine or draconian, St. Benedict’s conception of murmuring was…