My Canadian Government and Police tend to usually make good decisions, and when they don't it's acceptable, so yes, I respect those authorities. I don't necessarily repsect school authorities completely, but I don't go out of my way to misbehave at school either.

However, one thing I completely frown upon is our increasingly commercialized lifestyle and the American media. Each year we become a little more desensitized to violence and poor ethics due to TV and movies. Each year we fall more and more into a negative thought cycle due to the endless supply of bad news. Each year another disaster fills the media like the tsunami in Indonesia while millions of people die in Africa each year and it gets no coverage due to not being sensational enough. And each year the marketing machine finds more ways to fill our lives with advertising so we can waste more money. Trends and fads pass, and there is only an illusion of choice, since rich little bastards in their offices find a new way to target an age group for a new trend. We continue to kill animals and wreck the enviroment with pollution. So I don't repsect the media or how our lifestyle continues to fall into commercialization. If there was a way to rebel against the media in any other way than I already use, I would, but I also have to conform to some of the very issues that continue to degrade our lives.