Zionist Nationalist wrote:Hierarchy is natural its part of the human nature and will come back sooner or later it cannot be suppressed forever
It isn't. The concept of hierarchy within animals has been horrifically mangled by capitalists and reactionaries. Yes, there are numerous species of animals that use dominance as a social tool but it's a complex topic that's altogether very different from the kind of, "hierarchy" we see in civilized society. Even then, you should have a thorough understanding of why they exist in species rather than just saying that they're a good unto themselves, some sort of panacea.
Dominance hierarchies exist within environments with relatively little resources to go around whether that's food or mates, cooperation is still necessary, but the aforementioned species doesn't have a better means of ensuring the survival of the group. Hierarchies work but working in a natural sense means that it allows the next generation to survive without tearing each other apart. Subordinates are able to avoid needless struggle and injury to the gene pool by respecting their, "superiors."
In terms of creating a society that best suits our, "nature" we have more options than dominance hierarchies. Yes, at one point humans were hierarchical. However, a crucial part of our development, the reason humans are able to so fluently exchange information in the symbolic realm, was overcoming the system of alphas-betas. Before this, hunter-gatherer hominids divided up food obtained as the result of a hunt, for example. These primates do as almost all primates do and let the alpha of the band eat his fill first.
After the alpha ate, the beta would eat his fill, and so on, one after another until the food was gone. This is similar to how it works among many dominance-oriented animals. Nonetheless, sometimes there wasn’t enough to go around. Sometimes the position of the alpha or beta would be contested by the group. If this happened, you had a fight on your hands. That is, a bloody brawl between potentially the whole band that might leave it fatally crippled with too few to go on the hunt next time, resulting in starvation and death.
In the long run, the species could survive despite this cycle of violence, but tell that to the ones who had their skull bashed in. This was enough of a problem at one point that it led to the origin of what we would consider to be, "human." In this event, the hunters were all hungrily sizing up the corpse, all of them knowing that they wanted it and would be willing to kill to have as much as it as possible. However, one of the hunters had an epiphany. Instead of viewing the carcass as merely an object of their want, they realized it as a symbolic object of collective want.
Behold, the first and perhaps the most persisting metaphysical concept on Earth. Of course, without a means of expressing that concept, it was essentially worthless.
Luckily for humanity, the meta-conscious hunter did have a way, the abortive gesture. This gesture signaled to the other members of the hungry band not to greedily reach for the food and start a fight. Instead of maiming and screaming to see who would get to eat, the band, as a result of the abortive gesture decided to share the food equally between them. This is objectively the best outcome for all involved. Some might say the alpha is, "cheated" out of the lion's share, but uneasy whose head wears the crown. but until now it wasn't available because none of them had the prerequisites to understand/implement it.
This is essentially how complex language as we understand it emerged. Language existed before but was limited to non-symbolic expressions. This also was essentially the birth of what we'd understand as religion, hunters with epiphanies would turn into shamans who would interpret other symbols besides piles of food. Marxists would call the resulting system, "primitive communism" which isn't totally inaccurate. The birth of civilized tyranny is when the role of the shaman was usurped and instead of dividing resources fairly, they divided them to benefit the desires of a minority. From there, things progressed along the goal of maximizing their gains while more effectively subordinating the majority.
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