Depend On Order

Keep Their Own Order

Make Complexity Navigable

Make Coordination Possible

Make Scale Possible

Organize Complexity

Punish Scale

hierarchy

grammar

Santa Claus

dad joke

Noam Chomsky

universal grammar

is a serial system where communication between a & c passes through b.

by a pure hierarchy, I should mean a seriel system in which face-to-face relations do not occur between members when they are separated by some intervening member... in other words, systems in which the only communication between A and C passes through B' (Bateson steps 96).

is at the heart of the unthought of modern ideology.

hierarchy is at the heart of the 'unthought' (l'empense) of modern ideology' (1980: xvi)

is, along with order and discipline, an aesthetic value.

is inevitable as we are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.

Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.

Hierarchies are heavenly. In Hell all are equal.

is an organization in which every employee rises to his level of incompetence.

In a hierarchy every employee rises to his level of incompetence.

is an institution in which every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

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