"A military- and police-centered ideology teaches us to look for safety outside ourselves. If something is wrong, we call a cop, a parent, a teacher, or some other authority figure, rather than trying to sort it out ourselves and with peers. Using hierarchies to find safety, especially hierarchies that create and maintain illegitimate authority, is futile.

Hierarchies based in illegitimate authority are the cause of all the most dangerous things - pollution, poverty, sexual violence, war, etc. Everywhere, I see this pattern of authority-seeking, even among people who want to get rid of police and militaries. When we are emotionally stirred and in conflict, we often want others to see that we are right.

Even if we don't turn to official authority figures, many of us gossip or cancel or drag people on social media because we feel like we'll be safe if and when other people take our side. Or we want an outside facilitator or mediator to become a judge and declare us "in the right", and we are unsatisfied if they won't take on that role. We've been conditioned to look for safety outside."

- Dean Spade, "Love in a Fucked Up World"

#DeanSpade #LoveInAFuckedUpWorld #Authority #Hierarchy #Conflict #Safety

Elon Musk Discovers What Hierarchy Actually Means

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/22/elon-musk-discovers-what-hierarchy-actually-means/

Many of the #positive aspects of #OrganizedReligion are not so much positives of #religion as much as #failures of #secular spaces.

We can #organize #space for deep #philosophical #discussion, #collective #emotional #healing, providing #childcare, meeting #BasicNeeds, finding #intergenerational #community, keeping #traditions, and allowing #existence without #working or spending #money, all outside of the #church and its inherent #hierarchy.

It should be a #priority for the #atheist #movement.

The reason conservatism exists is to maintain hierarchy. It has always been this way.

#hierarchy #conservative #rightwing

https://open.substack.com/pub/letsmakethempay/p/conservatism-is-the-fight-for-hierarchy?r=2brusa&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

7 K-Dramas Where The Classroom Turns Into A Battle Ground

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.soompi.com/article/1767645wpp/7-k-dramas-where-the-classroom-turns-into-a-battle-ground

The arrest of #anisays at the #NationalDemo in London at the weekend explicitly shows the #hierarchy of racism there is in the UK.

#FreePalestine #SaveGaza #IsraelIsATerrorState #PoliceCorruption

https://thegreatcritique.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/wait-calling-someone-an-ethnic-slur-because-of-their-political-stance-is-wrong-after-all-i-cant-keep-up-video/

From Primitive Scarcity to Reassessing Hunter-Gatherer Societies and the Neolithic Bifurcation

Discover how Marshall Sahlins revolutionized anthropological thought by revealing abundance among hunter-gatherers, and why Alain Testart nuances this view with the complexity of sedentary inequalities. A deep dive into the Neolithic bifurcation between natural harmony and extractivist domination. #Anthropology #Neolithic #Abundance #Hierarchy Marshall Sahlins profoundly…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/from-primitive-scarcity-to-reassessing-hunter-gatherer-societies-and-the-neolithic-bifurcation/

Social Hierarchies Among Hunter-Gatherers: Complexity, Variations, and Debates

Contrary to the image of absolute egalitarianism, hunter-gatherer societies display great social diversity, sometimes including forms of hierarchy and differentiation. Anthropologists such as Lévi-Strauss, Clastres, and Testart illuminate this complexity. #Anthropology #HunterGatherers #Hierarchy The common idea that hunter-gatherer societies are systematically egalitarian is nuanced by…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/social-hierarchies-among-hunter-gatherers-complexity-variations-and-debates/