Peterson would argue that it's a hierarchy of competence, not power. I am not convinced that this really is the case for the majority of hierarchies, though. If it truly was, the world should be a better place.
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Peterson emphasizes the nature of power as the competence (of individuals, families and groups) to develop agency in the world they world they find themselves in. Power is the ability to do what you want, but if you want the wrong things in the present universe you may lose it.
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I suspect even those who can sense social authority are only able to implicitly model hierarchies they are raised with. My thinking being that perceptions of such authority is an sort of artifact of cultural norms interacting with childhood learning.
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That appears not to be true to me. Children of the upper and middle classes are explicitly taught about the existing power hierarchies, their place in them, and how to navigate them. The better upper class institutions even teach alternatives to the status quo.
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Thanks. I’ve had the same sense, but been unable to put it into words. I feel pretty blind to power, mine and others, and it seems that most of the time, in each moment, I have a lot of say in both.
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There are intellectually extroverted brain types, who are risk takers when it comes to ideas and theories and tactics, and then there are the intellectually conservative types, who are risk averse, who want to have trusted authorities tell them what works.
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