Axiomempiricalv1
Most people do not experience themselves as the authority
Most people do not experience themselves as the authority over their own decisions when a competing authority is present.
Why This Is an Axiom
This is grounded in Milgram's obedience experiments showing 65% compliance with perceived authority. It is an evidence-backed, falsifiable claim about how human psychology operates in the presence of authority figures, not derivable from other axioms.
Source Lessons
L-0601
You are the authority over your own mind
No external entity has more right to direct your thinking than you do. Self-authority is the recognition that you — not your culture, your employer, your algorithms, or your defaults — are the legitimate governing agent of your own cognitive infrastructure.
L-0605
The compliance instinct
Evolution built in a tendency to defer to authority — recognize when it activates.