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Point me to any animal with a nervous system that does not have a power/dominance hierarchy. This is just the same, tired Rousseauian social theory as always. A
by omginternets 4y ago
Point me to any animal with a nervous system that does not have a power/dominance hierarchy. This is just the same, tired Rousseauian social theory as always. At some point, one should ask why humans (or indeed any animal) never quite manages to train or educate the power dynamics away. It has literally never happened — not even once. If you still think it can, you need to be very precise in arguing how, and very original.
- dbingham 4y agoOf course the power dynamics never completely go away. There are a myriad of kinds of power dynamics - gender, race, and class up bringing all bring their own forms of power dynamics, to say nothing of just basic interpersonal interaction styles. The point of these structures isn't that the eliminate power dynamics entirely, but that they do not codify additional power dynamics into the structure of the organization. The organization's structure is intentionally formed to level the power dynamics as much as possible to allow the most input from the most people. It's just democracy, applied to business organizations. And there's quite a bit of sociological evidence - *empirical* evidence building that it is just as effective, and possibly more effective than the hierarchy.
- TheCoelacanth 4y agoA human society with the same level of hierarchy as most animals would be the most egalitarian society to exist basically since the invention of agriculture. A wolf pack is a nuclear family with the parents in charge. If that were the primary organizing principle for a human society, we would consider that pure anarchism.