Comments on: Unspoken Hierarchy

By: Y.

Y. — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 02:31:42 +0000

Hierarchy, like patriarchy, is built into the primate genetic code, and it is one of the defining features of primates.

What?

How can it be 'defining'.

Every social, group-living species I have read about has some form of hierarchy. Symbolism is very important. Ask anyone who has let his pet dinosaur perch above head-height..

By: Patton

Patton — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 01:08:55 +0000

…and of course, humans and birds are just alike, in the complexity of their goals and faculties.

By: Felix

Felix — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 20:25:20 +0000

Ah. Love of hierarchy.

Lack of a clear leader explains why flocks of birds get nowhere.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 15:49:59 +0000

“We began to realize that by building a company with a flat org structure, we had done the exact opposite of what we had intended. We had centralized all the decision-making, and we were relying on a secret implicit structure to make progress.”

This should have been obvious to start with. Absent a hierarchy, individuals and small self-formed groups may be able to make minor decisions, but the only person in the entire organization who can deploy resources on a large scale is the person at the very top.

By: Alrenous

Alrenous — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 12:21:36 +0000

Hierarchy is a logical property of groups. If there are two minds, they can differ, and they can’t both get their way and remain a group. The one that wins is the leader.

Though this signalling nonsense annoys me. Low church leftists hate coercive hierarchy but can’t be arsed to keep the ‘coercive’ distinction. Due to the electoral birth defect, rightists must then like coercive hierarchy.

Guys, there’s voluntary hierarchy. You can quit your job, and you choose who you apply to. The right-left dichotomy is progressive propaganda, it’s used to trap you into these sub-dichotomies.

By: Bomag

Bomag — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 11:59:16 +0000

What was the deal back in the 1980s when Japan claimed they empowered every worker to stop the assembly line, suggest product changes, rearrange work schedules, etc. Was that for real, or just something tossed out there for others to futilely chase?

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 11:50:24 +0000

Hierarchy, like patriarchy, is built into the primate genetic code, and it is one of the defining features of primates. Although hunter/gatherers do not differ much in individual property, there are leaders and followers. Humans are, in fact, uncomfortable and fearful when there is no leadership. Or, as Cochran and Harpending put it, we are descended from those who got down on their knees.