Status and Behaviour -1

...A man is a social being; he cannot live without society. All societies can be considered as being made of hierarchies. In a society where everybody is equal we may consider as a society of single hierarchy. It may be a very long horizontal stratum. The nearest of this kind of society was found in pre-agriculture communes. There was only one leader. Even the leader in such societies could not take independent decision because he was dependent on others. An egalitarian society has been ideal of many thinkers and philosophers for a long time but not yet fully achieved. It has been very difficult to create such a society in a situation where the members of the society are very large in number. The elements of equality have been embedded in varying degrees in the thinking of Buddha, Jesus Christ, Mohammad, Magna Carta, French revolutionaries, American Lawmakers, Hobbes, Rousseau, Karl Marx etc. Everywhere it was present in it own way. Actually it has been an enduring theme of the history. The same ideal of equality is supposed to have been provided by democracy and communism etc. There have been great religious and social movements in the quest of equality. Needless to say the three great religious movements in this direction have been Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. The French revolution, American rights declaration and American civil war have been great events in quest of equality. In this the aim of Russian revolution and Chinese revolution cannot be denied.


The natural desire of a man is to be superior to others. This has twofold opposite results. One is that a man always tries to be superior to others and the second is that the same desire forces him to negate the superiority of others. The first one leads to formation of hierarchy and the second leads towards equality. Those who are able to assert superiority are able to form hierarchy and those who oppose them lead to equalization. The superiority is desirable and inferiority is undesirable...