At It Again

I have another blog entry to share on Jordan Peterson and his insightful insistence that humans arrange their political, economic and social structures as hierarchies. According to Peterson, the mission of each hierarchy in America is to carry out its mission, and the meritorious, most talented, most intelligent and most conscientious elite performers end up on the top of each hierarchy, and their motive is competence and working hard, not amassing power to tyrannize and oppress. Where that happens, the hierarchy has been corrupted by those grabbing the reins of power have wrecked the institutions so corrupted. Peterson is pro-Western, pro-individual, pro-capitalism and pro-American. He argues that the captains of industry are honest, competent, decent moral leaders. typically caring for their customers and employees, running the business well from their A suites, not exploiting, gouging consumers, oppressing anyone or impelled forward by sheer power-lust and accumulation. Likely Leftists would accuse Peterson of being a sold-out apologist and cheerleader for free market corporations and company hierarchies, and, though he is a little too optimistic about the benevolence and decency of those running private institutions, he is correct in he main. What do I mean by this? Well, capitalists’ hierarchies are the most tyrannical, corrupt and power-motivated of all systems--except for all others, and the worst of the others are the various hierarchical institutions operating under totalitarian big government and Marxist economics. These are totally corrupt while Jordan’s free market hierarchies are relatively competent and well run. With all of these qualifiers included, Jordan Peterson is more correct than not in praising capitalist and democratic hierarchies and intuitions as relatively humane, liberty loving and liberty extending, while creating ease, luxury, wealth and freedom for all of its citizens. Such American hierarchy are not the bulwark of a corrupt male patriarchy but is more humane, kind, egalitarian and wealth-generating than any totalitarian or socialist hierarchy introduces. When I started my recent job, the other maintenance guys laughed that "shit rolls downhill" and that as the newest and least senior guy, I was the end target of management abuse of workers. The organization is a for-profit business, and has a mission, and it is not power accumulation, but power amassing and some corruption and tyrannizing subordinates does go on, but it is less vicious here than in collectivist hierarchies. As an individuate anarchist and supercitizen, I agree with Peterson that hierarchies and institutors are naturally occurring, but they should be strong but small with people at all levels of the hierarchy dealt with dignity and respect, not exploited or oppressed. The supervision of those below should move away from corrupting tyranny and be a source of democratic supervising with employer and underlings as peers and equals as much as is possible. This would do much to eradicate unhappiness and mistreatment. To make things much better in any hierarchy in existence, each level of the hierarchy should be flattened out as much as possible so that employees at every level of the organization have real input, decision-making power and maximum autonomy while still taking orders from above and the chain of command still exists. Were 98% of employees in any American hierarchy individuator anarchist supercitizens, there would be no corruption and such powerful merit that none would allow corrupt tyrants or bosses from above to abuse or exploit them. This would go a long way towards making hierarchies more competent, humane, democratic with employees with less suffering, happy and content and loyal--and thus much more productive--because they would then like their bosses who really would then have their backs. Workers would work much harder voluntarily and the quality, quantity and creativity of their work would become evident. No longer disrespected, malaise will decline, and morale would soar. There would be much less turnover, and many would stay for years. To Peterson's credit, he points out that there are many kinds of hierarchies and that a brilliant, plumber as important to society as an A suite CEO, as people rise to the top of some hierarchy based on their elite, meritorious performance in an area of strength. The anarchist individuator super citizen is a being of stubborn, shrewd, willful brilliance intellectually, proud, difficult to dominate, of singular courage. They will democratize any institution that they serve in, at any level, and to some degree they may live, work and maverize outside of almost all institutions as we deinstitutionalize most bureaucracies. Highly hierarchicalized, institutionalized society will work for group-oriented, no individuating, small ego collectivists and group-livers. Institutions are especially enervating if they are governmental or socialist hierarchies, the most cruel, the most totalitarian, the most minutely controlling of each individual in every aspect and detail of their daily lives. Suffering and unhappiness would be maximized but people would not feel lonely. We are born wicked which means we are small-egoed, group-living, altruistic, self-hating and other-hating, nonindividuators that run in packs. Such joiners and followers make perfect negative hierarchy residents, spread over the various levels of the institutions with a few naturally or environmentally destined to out-perform others and rise to the top getting the status, money and power enabling them to boss around and direct the masses at the bottom with not much wealth or power. As we are raised with noble Mavellonialist values and training we become big-egoed, individual-living, egoistic, self-loving and other-loving, individuators that democratize and delimit the size, scope and severe reach and direction that any hierarchy enjoys over its citizens. As we individuate and individual-live, we will live in hierarchies minimally with maximum power, independence and freedom utilized in person by each individuator citizen.