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Dave #30, that’s a great comment that hierarchy IS abuse. This one causes me to struggle, I think because I’ve been told for so long that hierarchy is how God set up the world and designed it to operate, and yet the reality is that I can’t think of a single example of a hierarchy that doesn’t have abuse in it. Major cognitive dissonance, right? The teaching and the practice are so far apart as to seem completely incompatible. It seems that any human with unilateral power will use it wrongly. In Spain they have a saying, “Give anyone a cap and a whistle and they’ll become a dictator.” The more I think about the truer it seems.
Has anyone else seen a hierarchy system that actually worked well and didn’t include some abuse?