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Invisible Interplay

Invisible Interplay

How hierarchy, anarchy, and heterarchy operate

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Gary A Schlueter
Aug 11, 2022
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There is an invisible interplay between hierarchy, anarchy and heterarchy. We who are trapped in what seems a permanent hierarchy tend to think this form of governance and socio-economic life is all there is, but there is more and there is better (and worse). 

My theory is that anarchy appears when hierarchy fails. That is unless the people are sophistic…

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