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the original sin, the first union, and every good idea before it had paperwork.
means The refusal or failure to obey a rule, command, or authority — the deliberate act of not doing what you were told.
from From Latin oboedire, "to obey," which literally means "to listen toward" — built from ob- ("toward") and audire ("to hear," the same root that gives us audio and audience). To obey was to bend an ear to your master; disobedience, then, is the prefix dis- ("apart, away") undoing that listening — a stopping of the ears. The word reached English through Old French desobeissance, settling into Middle English with its modern sense intact.
- civil legacy
- Thoreau coined the term in an 1849 essay
- milgram test
- only 35% defied orders to shock strangers
- etymology
- from Latin meaning 'to not listen'
- legal status
- Gandhi's salt march broke a tax law
- biology
- teenage brains are wired to challenge authority
salt march — gandhi led 240 miles to the sea in 1930 to protest british salt monopoly in india
rosa parks bus arrest — refused to give up her seat in montgomery, alabama on december 1, 1955
tiananmen square 1989 — student protesters blocked tanks and occupied beijing's central square for 7 weeks