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I-spect Baba
I agree with the wordsound.
Those points are the same points that I was trying to get across.
The root of the word hierarchy comes from "hieros (sacred)" and "archein (lead)". Therefore by using the english language, hierarchy was intended to be "sacred leadership."
What is identified as sacred to a people is something that is cherished very much and deemed very essential to their survival.
Through the observation of man, they saw that leadership/authority/dominant behavior was displayed to in the animal kingdom as well as in man.
Over time, man has abused the position of leadership to oppress and rule over people with an iron fist.
This however, does not make hierarchy automatically evil and oppressive. As the I said, there are good, as well as evil displays of dominant behavior.
I have challenged ones to give me a practical example of a society that exists/existed without some kind of hierarchal order. This would help I delve into whether it is a natural order of man or not. If there are cases of civilization and nations flourishing peacefully without any structured positions of leadership, then it can be argued that hierarchy is totally unnatural and oppressive for Afrikan people.
This would help the reasonings much more than idealized thoughts of how ones think things should be.
Give thanks Baba!
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