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Wednesday June 7, 2006 - 9:43PM EDT

I was in Wawa contemplating stuff while waiting for my sandwich and I got angry for a second. The thing that made me angry was the thought of a permanent low social class taking hold again in human society.  Ok, that statement alone is rife with generalities and needs much more clarification.
I was thinking about what is known of recorded history and the way humans have always seem to organize themselves into top-down social heiarchies. The concept of an egalitarian society is almost alien to us. Not to say that the heiarchy we use now is the wrong one but why do we tend to skew so much towards levels of superiority and subservience in so many things, even when it doesn't make much sense logically? Actually maybe it does make sense logically. Logically in the context of shared human experience. Is it that we don't know any better. I remember watching a documentary on sloths. The narrator described their society as egalitarian. Sure humans are not sloths but still it made me think. It made me think that social structure is not something that humans have exclusivity to. That would come as no surprise to anyone involved with animals, but for me unless I thought about it something like that didn't really occur to me. What makes sloth society egalitarian? I don't know, some sloth expert probably has a good idea though.
So the question is still why do humans create this social heirachy when in many cases it is counterproductive? I'd say that most of the time people just don't realize it is counterproductive. Maybe a lot of people still have a little tribe mindset. They are thinking take care of myself and the few people in my tribe and everything will be alright. That crap don't work anymore, society is too large and resources are too scarce. The reach of any little thing a person does can go around the world. That is why I am also disaapointed when I keep seeing various countries being fractured into smaller nation states by various ethnic groups. It's all about getting their own little piece. Which is understandable in most cases, but I'd just expect more sometime. I lost my train of thought, crap. I'm tired.