One builds a pyramid from the ground up. One does not build a pyramid by suspending the capstone from a skyhook and cementing layers one beneath the other until reaching ground.
What I object to is not hierarchical organisations per se, it is to their use of elaborate fictions, sophistries or mythologies in an attempt to persuade people that those at the top are magically exempt from the law of gravity and do not, in fact, owe their position to the support of those beneath them. Generals without armies are reduced to playing with toy soldiers, physical or digital; Supreme and Holy Kings who find themselves sole and supreme authority over three people and a dog meeting in a leaky basement are, or at least should be, objects of ridicule rather than awe.
What I object to is not hierarchical organisations per se, it is to their use of elaborate fictions, sophistries or mythologies in an attempt to persuade people that those at the top are magically exempt from the law of gravity and do not, in fact, owe their position to the support of those beneath them. Generals without armies are reduced to playing with toy soldiers, physical or digital; Supreme and Holy Kings who find themselves sole and supreme authority over three people and a dog meeting in a leaky basement are, or at least should be, objects of ridicule rather than awe.
Lege--iudica--atque ride.
