Petersonian Hierarchies

Jordan Peterson talks a lot about how hierarchies are part of our biological heritage, going back 350 million years. He seems correct. He then applies this biological reality to Marxist claims that all history is but a struggle for power between warring identity groups, and that corrupt hierarchies of the haves and victimizers oppress, enslave and exploit the have-nots and the victims that need to rise up and overturn the status quo. Peterson objects that the capitalist system is only 300 years old, so it cannot at all reasonably be blamed for hierarchical injustice. He recommends that political, institutional, political and economic injustice be redressed but not by Marxist totalitarianism and equality of outcome ends. I like his emphasis on individual’s developing their talents, so they can rise up hierarchies of competence, based upon individual merit not identity group quotas. When hierarchies are taken over by corrupt leadership, then they turn vicious and are doomed to decay and increase human suffering. Hierarchies are permanent, but they should be flattened, made democratic, even as anarchistic as possible. Where or if 90% of adults were individuators, widespread, brilliant competence would prevent any hierarchy from turning corrupt, oppressive or very stratified as they hard work, and brilliant performance and super-competence of each citizen would allow for reach citizen to accrue roughly his fair if slightly unequal share of power, money and rewards based on an equality of opportunity governance. This is the most just and workable way to counter the fair socialist complaint that the spoils of society are unevenly distributed along the stratified structure of society. One of Jordan’s worst errors is to assume, based upon his own genius, that talent is rare and a genetic elite rise to the top, get the lion’s share of the money, power, beautiful women and societal approbation. I like Eric Hoffer before me object the average people are lumpen with untapped talent, and as maverized, living angels, their talent will be so smart, so artistic, so productive, so brilliant that a high civilization will be the outcome. Talent is not in short supply, the waste of human talent is the norm, and my Mavellonialist philosophy is my attempt to rectify this horrible social norm.