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the more the patriarch IS the de-facto core holding the family together, the more conservative his stance is towards the borderlands in extreme cases, permeable borders are despised so much that the system becomes closed & incestuoushttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1356156958504435714?s=20 …

in work contexts, as you go up to manager, director, CEO the scope of allowed topics decreases. e.g. w/ the CEO you can only talk about how great the company is and blah blah blah. anything that is negative gets you labelled a terrorist of the organization

hierarchies of value are thus not actually pyramids where freedom is reached at the apex they are more like radial trees where the top of the pyramid is actually the "heart" the nodes actually compress inwards and generate ANTI-freedom instead of actual freedom

a hobo at the borderlands has infinite freedom, yet this is not the freedom most people yearn for. most yearn for freedom b/c they are limited by social forces and they seek to overcome those limitations through increased social influence

they find ways to head deeper and deeper into the heart of things, losing freedom yet ironically being driving by a desire to loose the feeling of being impotently limited

Freedom is NOT Power power means you don't need to use force or coercion. meaning you influence through values and thus have to petrify yourself into a crystal that refracts those values consistently over long periods of time

the confused guy who tries to gain power through increased freedom is the archetypical cult leader who failed to gain power leading an uprising in a previous system the core detected the anomaly and ejected the radical