All I know is that according to my experience, shifting my attitude has brought success without even really trying. I'm a lot like you, "boss," in the sense that I spent the vast majority of high school and my undergrad college years despising authority, loathing the hoops I was seemingly forced to jump through by spending 18+ years in an educational bureaucracy so I could actually get my foot in the door somewhere, watching the news and media with increasing distaste for what I thought was the obvious downfall of societal values and thinking that everyone was ignorant to the things that would make the world a better place. Rap music? Fuck rappers, fuck the Kardashians, fuck Jersey Shore, fuck Enron, fuck Bush, and fuck you if you don't see that I'm a critical thinker and that my passion for answering life's most important questions makes me more wise, sophisticated, and just than you will ever be. Take off the goggles dude, you're all fucking blind.
But, when I started to shift my attitude to see the good in all I had considered bad, to see the just in the unjust, to take sole and utter responsibility for my well-being, and, most importantly, to recognize the ultimate and pervasive freedom of my own mind by understanding the power of interpretation, amazing things started to happen. I define reality, and through defining it I literally construct it. I can be the richest man or the poorest man, but the choice is mine and mine alone to decide which I will be.
There is no "out there" independent of what's "in here." Projection is not only a defense mechanism, it's a truism, and I realized that the only reason I saw authority as trying to manipulate and control everything is because it was the same approach I was taking. I was trying to control and manipulate by preaching my ideals to anyone I could find, especially late at night when I was left alone to my thoughts and they were bursting to get out. How could they not agree with me? How could they not see my ideas are special? How could they not understand that the depth of my thoughts was an obvious correlation to my unwavering desire to make the world a better place?
As it turns out, I had simply invested too much of myself -- my emotions, my ego, my values, etc. -- in these ideas, and by preaching them I was simply being selfish. I wanted to change the world in a way that my ego wanted, and I wanted to make the world just according to what my ego considered just. I was the person I was criticizing. I was a CEO, Bush, Enron, a rap star, a Kardashian, and a Jersey Shore nut all wrapped into one, and I didn't like myself then. It took me a long time to figure out why. In fact, I'm still figuring it out. I advise you to do the same.
The words of true wisdom!
I back this up, it really works.