>>11508479Obviously obedience. Name a single edgelord who has a PhD in any science. In fact they're the most docile people to ever exist as a distinct group and will be the first to adopt the conformist ideology of the masses. I don't want to call them beta males because the alpha/beta male division is popsci bullshit, but you get my point.
On the other hand it's not good to be an edgy anarchist teenager dropout either. The sweet spot is in the middle, but these people are now basically extinct as the complexity of modern society requires you to obey entirely to the way it's being taught to you while getting hit by all these distractions around you so you really do not have the time to question things. If you don't have the time to question the environment around you, you WILL default to society's templates for acceptable behavior even if you become an expert in your field, which is exactly the problem we have right now with many scientists excelling in their sphere but also being mediocre at best in anything else, specifically politics. They never had the time to question authority and cultivate a central philosophy, and also their degree was literally thanks to submitting to a form of authority that dictated their thinking patterns. This is the source of obedience - your energy being redirected away from questioning the authority enforcing it. By the time you finally have enough time to do so, you brain has already cemented the habits you had so carefully cultivated in the past 30 years and you will always be like this.
The answer is in the middle, in an intelligent man who does not have to submit to the mentors' authority and retains his autonomy, yet somehow manages to come out on the top at the same time all the while having enough time to contemplate life and our social structure. The demands of modern society has made these people extinct, so all we're left with is rebellious dropouts and subservient PhDs.
