Hierarchy
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We have confused Maslow's
hierarchy
of needs, just a little bit.
It was an artificial
hierarchy
in which everything that you could and could not do was based upon what you looked like.
This artificial hierarchy, because it goes against human desires to be free, required a tremendous amount of violence to maintain.
And in a number of studies, it's possible to compare how people do in more and less equal countries at each level in the social
hierarchy.
You see there that Sweden does better than Britain all the way across the social
hierarchy.
So it's down the
hierarchy
on lighting.
It happens to some of our phyletic cousins, because if you're a monkey, and you look at another monkey, and that monkey has a higher
hierarchy
position than you, and that is considered to be a signal or threat, well, you are not going to be alive for long.
It's a
hierarchy.
We all know that a
hierarchy
is how we run many systems today, but as we know, it's been disrupted.
It's a heterarchy instead of a
hierarchy.
Whether you're in the
hierarchy
or the heterarchy, it's a wonderful design challenge.
So for instance, you might open up a distribution here and find the different subdivisions in there, and know that you know someone in Eco, over here, and these people here are in Eco, the people you might engage with as CEO, people going across the
hierarchy.
It's the system by which we organize and exercise power, and there I'm talking about politics, because in politics, we're back to this system, this top-down
hierarchy.
This is called a cognitive
hierarchy
theory, by the way.
It's something that I've worked on and a few other people, and it indicates a kind of
hierarchy
along with some assumptions about how many people stop at different steps and how the steps of thinking are affected by lots of interesting variables and variant people, as we'll see in a minute.
And what's interesting is that you can see that
hierarchy
is having a bit of a wobble, and it's all about heterarchical now, so people trust people like themselves more than they trust corporations and governments.
Because the Zetas organization was founded in treason, they lost some of the linkages to the production and distribution in the most profitable markets like cocaine, but what they did have, and this is again based on their military origin, was a perfectly structured chain of command with a very clear
hierarchy
and a very clear promotion path that allowed them to supervise and operate across many, many markets very effectively, which is the essence of what a chain of command seeks to do.
If you prefer this kind of Maslow's
hierarchy
of needs, those three objects are very good at supporting the lowest rungs in Maslow's
hierarchy
of needs.
They live in groups with a very strict social
hierarchy.
When I first saw those African fractals, I thought, "Wow, so any indigenous group that doesn't have a state society, that sort of hierarchy, must have a kind of bottom-up architecture."
It's to make them turn their back on what they think they like now, and reach out for something higher up the mustard
hierarchy.
Mustard does not exist on a
hierarchy.
And these modules were organized in hierarchies, and we created that
hierarchy
with our own thinking.
Go up another five levels, and you're now at a pretty high level of this hierarchy, and stretch down into the different senses, and you may have a module that sees a certain fabric, hears a certain voice quality, smells a certain perfume, and will say, "My wife has entered the room."
You might think that those are more sophisticated, but actually what's more complicated is the
hierarchy
beneath them.
And next, what's our framework or our
hierarchy
for making decisions?
They also spend their lives in small groups with a strict dominance
hierarchy
where only the most dominant male and female reproduce.
And amazingly, if the dominant female in the group dies, the largest and most dominant male will then quickly become female and take her place, and all of the other males will move up one rank in the
hierarchy.
Could it undo this hierarchy, and could it be about a system that is more about collaboration, rather than isolation?
This belief holds that the universe has a
hierarchy
resembling a chain, and that chain starts at the top with God, then travels down through the angels, planets, stars, and all lifeforms before ending with demons and devils.
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