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    1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 22 Oct 2020

      It’s why creative and hacker types have difficulty in traditional hierarchies. They don’t know their place. Correspondingly, their archetypes contain more yin.

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    2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 22 Oct 2020

      Female hierarchies are about influence. A faux pas would be “stealing” more attention. Being sluttier is one way, as is going Mulan. These archetypes have more yang.

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    3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 22 Oct 2020

      A hierarchy that is built purely on direct freedom rather than a surrogate for freedom like money is theoretically impossible. The leaders wouldn’t stay still long enough for the hierarchy to be coherent. Too busy exercising their freedom.

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    4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 22 Oct 2020

      This points at the tyranny of hierarchies when they require surrogates to maintain coherent identities. The more money you have, the more trapped you are. Zuckerberg for example is probably one of the most trapped humans in the world.

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    5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 22 Oct 2020

      An equivalent for female hierarchies would be using sexual influence as a stand-in for social influence. It works to a degree, but requires massive amounts of energy to maintain the facade of perfection the higher you go.

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    6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 22 Oct 2020

      (This kind of “engineered” perfection is ironically more masculine than feminine. Hierarchies are intrinsically phallic shapes.)

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    7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 22 Oct 2020

      In this sense hierarchies are like towers of babel. Male bravado and female fakeness can’t touch Heaven, but they point in the general direction of Gods and Goddesses.

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    8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 22 Oct 2020

      The North Star may just be a burning ball of destructive hydrogen, but that misses the point of what a North Star is for.

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    9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 22 Oct 2020

      E.g. having a North is useful for going north. It's even useful for going south. But that doesn't mean you can *only* go north or *only* go south. You can use the compass to draw maps, go on journeys, play games, etc..

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    10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 22 Oct 2020

      Someone has to make the sacrifice and petrify themselves in order to have some sense of direction for everyone else.

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       🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 22 Oct 2020

      This helps me to make sense of why sometimes I'll agree with two people who are viciously arguing with each other. One is pointing North and one is pointing South. Together they make me *more* sure of my POV.

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        2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 22 Oct 2020

          If I had only one North without a corresponding South, I'd always be suspicious that I'm just blindly following some idiot.

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        3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 22 Oct 2020

          One of the reasons people become obsessed with climbing hierarchies is when the games are no longer fun. When there's not enough meaning generated via multiple victory conditions then the default victory condition is via dominance.

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        4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 22 Oct 2020

          This is nature's "Base Protocol" that is red in tooth and claw. It is the default which we can always rely on if everything else fails.

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        5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 22 Oct 2020

          So while yes, it is true that hierarchies are unnecessary in the grand scheme of things since they're basically arbitrary. The questions is if we can or want to pay the price for letting nature take the reigns and unleash the soldiers of heaven and hell.

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        6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 22 Oct 2020

          The Eternal Conflict is the blank piece of paper that is the Eternal Background of Being. But to hang up a blank piece of paper and call it Beautiful Art is to miss the point of having this canvas. To worship Nothingness is to enshrine Ugliness and Death and Pain.

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