The quote doesn't necessarily mean people should follow the tyranny of the status quo. Although, most people in the world today are pretty ignorant and blindly follow whatever bolsheviks government says is best for them, and everyone around them.

Milton Friedman used to say that the label of Good Housekeeping is not always the same thing, and that what we call healthcare in America is far more accurately stated as sick care. Pharmacological freedom, and prescriptive authority, should be an individual's right, imho.