I think people like having a world that they can make sense of, and organizational schema help do that. I don’t think it needs to be hierarchical (ruled/ruler)

I think people like having a world that they can make sense of, and organizational schema help do that. I don’t think it needs to be hierarchical (ruled/ruler) in order to get 100% of the benefit of a world that is somewhat distilled, even imperfectly, from a complete mess of unstructured interactions. Society will reach its peak when we fully adopt a graph-like conception of people’s roles, ideally with a high degree of mobility between the nodes. You can know where you fit without being told where you fit. Right now we’re in the uncanny valley of not wanting to tell anyone, but also acting like there’s nothing to be known.