Jordan Peterson talks of hierarchies being a natural human condition that inevitably arise in organized society, and he is correct about this.
He distinguishes between corrupt hierarchies of power-seeking ruled by rotten tyrants at the top versus honest hierarchies of competence in which individualists in a free market economy compete and cooperate. This life creates great amounts of wealth, freedom and opportunity for the members of society, and is fairly just.
Okay, I accept this over all. My belief in personal capacity for marvellous self-realizing, inherently possessed by every interested or uninterested person, must be reconciled with Jordan's recommendations to avoid bad corrput hierarchies, and to live within a society structured around good, competent hierarchies.
I have long written that depraved humanity is evil because people hate themselves, natural altruists. They are perfectible as educated egoists that have learned to love themselves, God, the world and others. Such benevolent egoists will live the anarchist lives of individuated and individuating great souls and supercitizens. They will live in a constitutional republic with not many and not very developed hierarchies of competence.
Altruists, born and reinforced by poor values, exist within society in extensive, overlapping hierarchies which breed mob person, infected with groupist ideology and group-living. The greater the size, reach and power of the institution in question the smaller, more enslaved and unhappy and poor are the individuals affected by it.
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