Today is 4/6/25; a couple of weeks ago, I saw a short Jordan Peterson clip on YouTube, on a subject he has broached before, and I was familiar with his take on hierarchies, and then and now accept his assertion that hierarchies have been in the human genetic code for 350 million years, a common background we share with lobsters.
Peterson is refuting Marxists and other revolutionaries who insist that a caste or class system in society is a human construct, so that evil system needs to be overthrown, and we will construct a utopian-grade classless society to replace it with.
Peterson is asserting that caste system, inequities and inequalities have always been here, and are darned need impossible to eradicate and remove.
That seems correct. We cannot eradicate the tendency for people over time to divide themselves into haves/oppressor and the majority (have-nots/oppressed), but we can mitigate these natural proclivities.
If we set up a social construct, a social contract, agreed to by each generation, that all shall live as individuating supercitizens in a free-market constitutional republic, then people will learn to be free, be roughly equal, oppress none, and be oppressed by none; then, this learned behavior, in which the young are steeled into, will generally disallow for returning to a hierarchical social dispensation.
This will only work in any given society if the young are instructed to live as individuating supercitizens in each succeeding generation forever, for the young must know how to love and live, and how not to love and not to live, and accept such self-controlling role-playing as their personal duty, freely accepted, and enthusiastically embraced and self-enforced, then society will not be utopia, but will be close enough to be acceptable.
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