There are so many ways of being human. We all develop in different ways & at different rates: to be slow is not a failing, smarts are not a #moral virtue.

Creating a #hierarchy of human worth paves the way for cruelty. Whose interests are served by doing this?

‘The basis of eugenics’: Elon Musk and the menacing return of the R-word https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/03/r-word-right-wing-rise?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

"Come to think of it, every dream our great male visionaries and poets come up with of an ideal society—Plato’s city of Atlantis, Thomas More’s Utopia, Augustine’s City of God, Jesus’s kingdom of God—all of them describe societies defined by #equality, #cooperation, #,co-dependence, #empathy and #unity.

#PatriarchalMasculinity, by contrast, is defined by #hierarchy, competition, independence, stoicism and #isolation. How have we allowed this force to so thoroughly infiltrate our leaders and societies for so long when it is the exact opposite of what we see as ideal?

Truly mind boggling when you think about it."
#Patriarchy

https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/patriarchal-masculinity-runs-the-world

Finding a culprit and punishing them is, in our culture, often presented as a solution in itself. Even while the ship sinks.

From the article, 'on morals and inertia' (link below).

https://www.neurofabulous.org.uk/what-makes-bad-people.html

#Hierarchy #Capitalism #Inequity #Poverty #Discrimination
#Oppression #Exploitation
#ActuallyAutistic

“Crack-Up Capitalism”
Historian Quinn Slobodian on #Trump, #Vance, #Musk and the Movement to “Shatter” the State
#DemocracyNow! #Culture #Politics #Economics #Eugenics #Racialization #RaceEssentialism #GenderEssentialism #Hierarchy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIPWekMahXc

"A brain, an ecosystem, and a city all share the following elements: integration, communication, and system history and initial conditions...In human societies, we might consider the holistic nature of culture & communication as knowledge-sharing through the senses, and the initial conditions of the society being shaped by formative traditions, structures and materials, strategies, and habits of the mind..."

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-02-06/rethinking-rank-and-privilege-in-human-societies/

On counterwill.
Or ‘being contrary’ (like Mary)

A thread

1/11

Is there a data structure that can sensibly handle multiple hierarchical classification systems?

e.g. an Orange, in terms of phylogeny is
Plantae->Eudicot->...->Citrus->sinensis

and in terms of usefulness, is
Thing->Food->fruit->orange
(and it could have multiple parents in this taxonomy, e.g. cleaning product)

Bonus points for cool visualisations of this kind information.

Seminal quote from Silo:

"His discovery was that evil men arose from evil systems, and that every man had the potential to be perverted.

Which is why some systems needed to come to an end."

We're all in boxes.

On giving the little people the impression they’ve “got the power”

A thread

1/7

What are some of the many Problems With Hierarchy? - https://peacefulrevolutionary.substack.com/p/five-questions-of-power
#hierarchy #anarchism #leninism

“It’s your choice to feel hurt or not.”
“Take back your power!”

A thread.

Telling people they ‘have the choice’ and to ‘take back their power’ can, at times, be a bit less helpful than one might think.

1/8

On the gifts we think we've given and the ones we don't know we received.

A thread on gratitude… and power.

1/21

#Hierarchy #Society #Meritocracy #Success #Competing #Generosity #Gratitude #ActuallyAutistic (me)

Our World Is Run By Psychopathic Narcissists!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_cT1t6YwAA

seminar explores narcissistic psychopathy, defining its key traits like grandiosity and entitlement, and how it inevitably becomes the leading trait in hierarchical power structures.