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OK, well, in, in Holland, where I come from, respect for authority has … evolved quite a lot, well basically over the past decades. I mean, originally Hlland was very much a, what we call a ‘pillared society’, consisting... consisting of a Catholic pillar and a Protestant pillar, a Socialist one, and, and all these pillars sort of had their own organisational structures and their own hierarchies and.. authority structures – in other words, people within the Catholic pillar respected the, the ‘Pastoor’, the... the pastor, and the bishops and so on, and what they said was rule for them. Now that was the case sort of up until the early sixties, when, gradually that got eroded with ideas of individual freedom. You know, you had the developments in France with the student revolts, in Holland you had ‘Provo’, sort of young protesters who didn’t want to stay in these structures and strictures anymore, so gradually, and later more drastically, these structures got overturned and things changed into the opposite of those – suddenly everything was a free for all and anarchic and at the universities, for instance, you know, students had to be, have representatives on every body, and every appointment committee and so on, and you didn’t have exams any more, but the group would ‘assess’ each other and themselves, and all that. Ad now - we’re talking about the early twenty-first century – I think things have changed back a bit, but not swung back all the way, I think. There... there is more respect for authority again, but not in the blind way as it used to be in the old days.