Religious Fundamentalism. An ambivalent phenomenon of the modern age (tags)
The conclusion that Thomas Meyer repeatedly puts forward is obvious: "Fundamentalism proves to be an indeterminate negation of the foundations of Enlightenment and modernization."
Diversity and democracy (tags)
The key of your argumentation is that we can't "boycott" government (not like boycotting a specific product or store etc.). Because on your point of vue, what I call electoral aristocracy or delegation, "the modern concept of governmental authority" as you claim, is inevitable. First its modernity should be questioned. And even if there's an historic modernity in it, it still can be criticized (neoliberal capitalism also claims to be "modern").