tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180270631422837748.post6100238160165782243..comments2023-08-16T09:39:08.120-04:00Comments on femonomics: Out of the pot, into the fire: How hierarchy defines our livesCoca Colohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05951066922977616639noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180270631422837748.post-61322888084833510372010-08-16T06:03:28.173-04:002010-08-16T06:03:28.173-04:00It depends on the framework within which you ask t...It depends on the framework within which you ask this question.<br /><br />If you're asking, "Is hierarchy the dominant cultural form on this planet, and have all of us been so thoroughly trained in it that we do it as natural as breathing," then I would answer yes. <br /><br />If you're asking, "Is hierarchy an unchanging hallmark of human nature?" then I would answer that I believe the jury is still out on that one, since only small pockets of non-hierarchical indigenous culture survive the massive expansion of our own.<br /><br />If any of us, raised in a kyriarchy since birth, tried to create a different, non-authority-centric system and practice living within it, we'd have to be very self-aware, mature human individuals who were constantly on the lookout for subtle ingrained responses, much like de-programming yourself from a lifetime of racism and misogyny, but on an even grander scale. <br />I do think that working to have human responses rather than racist or misogynist responses is the first step towards imagining this mad new human-centered world, though.iamlegshttp://www.rethinkingourselves.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com