>>43462479Two things.
Number one is, there is always a hierarchy.
Either A gets the word over B and C, or C gets the word over B and A. There is no other equilibrium in reality. In cases where the status hierarchy is unclear - that is to say, in cases where power is up for grabs - internecine conflict will intensify and continue until the hierarchy is settled, and power is secure.
Number two is, diversity+proximity=war.
That kind of conflict only stops when one of the principles of the conflict are physically removed from the spaces they occur in. There is no other equilibrium in reality.
Of course I personally never fail to be accommodating to people in my life in person; but the reason I can do that is because my own 'bubble' of existence is itself subject to numerous forms of preselection effect; were I living the kind of life that would, for one reason or another, bring me into contact with many different forms of less eucivic personages, that same strategy of reflexive accommodation would be grossly dysfunctional. Different modes of thought are more and less adaptive in different scales of context. And in any case, would speak nothing to how such things have consequences on larger societal scales, even when you aren't personally entangled with them.
