This is a niche one but it might help someone in the future:
How to include multiple directories from different places in the file system hierarchy in an archive without including the whole directory structure for any of them.
Argument with my partner about #hierarchy. #anarchists, I need you. I ended my argument with: a power differential that the dominated individuals benefit from might be better labeled specialization. Specialization necessitates power differential. Some skills are social, such as leadership. But if those with power do not wield power for broad social benefit (every specialization has lore), then that would be hierarchy, which society can dispense with for greater good. Comments?
Managers are Less Burned-Out at the Top: the Roles of Sense of Power and Self-Efficacy at Different Hierarchy Levels
Korman et al., 2022 Business and Psychology
"Additional analyses reveal that high sense of power and high self-efficacy are both necessary conditions for low levels of burnout. Such fine-grained analyses allow us to understand why managers at the top are less threatened by burnout"
Image (by Natalia Buitron) a meeting in a Shuar village in a large swept square space under a corrugated roof, people sitting around the edges on benches, raising their hands to speak. Garden trees flourish in the background, a dog in the middle
I've been trying to advance #sustainability since about 2007. I originally have a background in #engineering and #design, and did a PhD about technological substitutes for critical resources. However, #energytransition has been my main focus.
I firmly believe that broadening #democracy is THE key to sustainability.
Every alternative to #democracy requires steep #hierarchy - some beings having unilateral power to make decisions over others.
And then we're back at the problem of benevolent dictatorship: they invariably become mere dictatorships in short order.
What's more, a hierarchical society incentivises #competition .
Hierarchies force everyone to compete. Either for a higher position, or to avoid losing position: in a hierarchy, those at the bottom are at the mercy of the more powerful.
In my last thread, I talked about Pingliangtai, an archeological site in China where people living in the Neolithic built and maintained a complex drainage system, including China’s oldest ceramic pipes, without any evidence of state hierarchy.
Today, I wanted to discuss another site from the same archeological culture, Taosi.
Lower-level elites had their own section of the city, while commoners lived in yet another. Commoners literally lived in the dirt, in single-room semi-subterranean homes dug into the soil, surrounded by trash dumps. Large storage pits, possibly for grain, were not attached to any individual household, suggesting that elites taxed and centrally controlled grain production. Elite tombs were filled with elaborate grave goods, including jade axes, pottery, lacquer, and turquois-inlaid shells. Commoners were buried in small graves with nothing but a few ornaments.
The city also featured yet another walled enclosure, this one possibly a ritual site where city elites performed astronomical observations to calculate a sacred calendar. The presence of walls and absence of anything related to daily life suggest another part of the city that was closed off to commoners.
Are there any cultures where people don't have names and refer to each other by relation only? Eg.
"Good morning, teacher"
"Honey, I'm home."
"Mother, get the gun."
"Team Leader please stop singing."
"Pharmacist what have you done?"
"I'm always impressed with you, Beekeeper."
@futurebird
Southern US English speaking people, especially Black folks /older generations, do this more than younger folks. There is a mix of friendliness within an acknowledged social hierarchy. Cuz or cousin, auntie, uncle, bruh or brotha, sis or sistah, honey, sugar, baby girl, sweetheart even for people unrelated by blood.
For Christians, sister or brother. #BlackFriday#BlackMastodon#sociolinguistics#hierarchy
If your space doesn't allow the advocacy of illegal actions then your space doesn't allow honest or useful discussion of real issues because many of the only viable solutions to modern problems personal and macro alike are crimes because criminal law is a tool of our oppressors. 1/*
This is especially true of community rules against advocating violence because what is and isn't defined or perceived as "violence" varies depending on who's doing it and to whom. 2/*
The oppression of marginalized people maintains the status quo, so it isn't seen as "violence" even when it causes injury and death, but marginalized people resisting our oppression is seen as "violence" even when nobody gets hurt, because it disrupts the status quo. 3/*
A quick look at the political tools of fascism, this book is a great starting point if you've never really bothered to take a look at what fascism is and how it works. Much of the extreme rhetoric you're hearing today will make a whole lot more sense in the context of this book.
The pull of fascist politics is powerful; it simplifies human existence. It gives us an object, a "them" whose supposed laziness highlights our own virtue and discipline. […] Fascist politics preys on the human frailty that makes our own suffering seem bearable if we know that those we look down upon are being made to suffer more.
Where #Putin has become enamoured with the concept of the “#Noosphere,” or the idea that the earth should evolve into a “conscious” planet, placing people in the role of #neurons, #Musk has been echoing similar concepts — going so far as to call #Twitter a “collective cybernetic super-intelligence...”
some new phase of being rooted in “#Noocracy,” or “rule by the wise”, where #Putin and #Musk are “the wise.”...