Do we have too much civil obedience?

Author Howard Zinn thought so in this essay written back in 1970 and narrated in this Vimeo video by Matt Damon. We all recognize that civil obedience was the problem that let Hitler plunge the world into chaos, ending in the deaths of 60,000,000 people. People obeyed Hitler. They obeyed Stalin, and Mao, Pol Pot, and the Korean Kims. But what about those of us who obey a rule of law that jails people for tiny, trivial errors and lets insiders walk free after the theft of trillions? Should we obey such rules? Matt Damon doesn’t think so, and neither do I.