Hierarchy in nature and in humanity

Question from the Internet:

“Is hierarchy part of nature? Or is it a human invention?”

is true that there is hierarchy in nature. We can clearly observe this hierarchy in the “animal kingdom” or even in our own biological bodies. We can see how there are seemingly “more and less” important organs or subsystems, how there are qualitatively higher level predators and the hapless “lower level” ones that exist as the food and nutrition for the ones higher in the hierarchy of nature.

Humans did not invent hierarchy.

Although we are all born with an inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric and individualistic nature, that drives us to excessively accumulate and consume everything for our own sake while succeeding at the expense of others, our individual abilities, conditions and the hunger with which we pursue this self-serving life is vastly different from individual to individual, and even from nation and culture to nation and culture.

As a result, human society is instinctively and automatically arranged according to a pyramid, the most able and self-serving people on top, controlling, manipulating and expoloiting the rest.

But there is a huge difference between the natural and the human hierarchy.

In Nature the hierarchy is absoluetly purposeful.

The highest level predators do not act, kill and consume for their own sake. They simply fulfill their regulatory and balancing role in the system. They never consume or accumulate more than what they actually need, and leave the rest for seconddary predators and scavangers. Without the extremely important role of the prime predators the fine general balance would collapse and extreme harm would unfold to the whole system. As a result of reckless and ignorant human activity we already have proof of this.

Also, when we look at the biological body, we see the heart and brain getting the freshest blood available with the best nutrition. But without their constant and absolutely serving role that whole body would cease to function immediately. Thus while in nature there is also very clear hierarchy, the qualitatively higher an element or organ is in the system, the greater its responsibilty and function is to maintain and regulate the all-important balance and function of the whole system so all elements can survive and develop in the most optimal way.

In human hierarchy the higher one is in the pyramid, the more one exploits and manipulates the system for selfish benefit, causing harm and destruction to the whole system.

Only when human beings willingly and consciously learn and purposefully implement a nature-like hierarchy, and mutually responsible and mutually complementing integration and cooperation can we change and remedy our self-destructive human system that is heading for self-extermination.