obedience

In a society still influenced by Confucian values such as righteousness and obedience, mental health issues remain heavily stigmatised and many experience feelings of shame or social judgement.

“The fact remains that Comey is being persecuted, not prosecuted, for putting service to the nation above obedience to a man,” the Guardian’s Lawrence Douglas wrote.

“When he was younger, way before we knew we were doing this, he had some basic obedience training,” Fischer noted.

Their power to keep a country functioning, he stresses, relies on the cooperation and obedience of those they govern.

For them, success is not obedience to the system but independence from it.