Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.
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I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.Mary Douglas
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
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I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
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Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
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What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.
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