Thus the highest virtue in South Africa came to be conformity, not bucking the system. The highest value was set on unquestioning loyalty to the dictates of the Broederbond. That is perhaps why people did not ask awkward questions. For most, something had to be so because someone in authority had declared it to be so. They found it singularly difficult if not impossible to distinguish between authoritative and authoritarian. In the end even the most bizarre idea could be accepted because the herd instinct was invoked.
