Doing less of what doesn't work is a principle that is practically instinctive to the human designer. But when it comes to our social organizations, the people of our culture follow a very different principle: If it doesn't work, do it MORE.
http://www.survivingwithincivilization.blogspot.com/Humanity has spent most of its history free of heirarchy. Equality is not a liberal dream -- it was the reality for nearly every human being who lived prior to 10,000 BC.
Social domination originated with human males dominating females. The infirmities of age, increasing population, natural disasters, technological changes, the growth of civil society, and the spread of warfare were contributory factors.
Bookchin claims that the notion of a natural world separate from human culture appeared with the rise of hierarchy:
"the idea of dominating nature has its primary source in the domination of human by human and the structuring of the natural world into a hierarchical Chain of Being"
'What Is Social Ecology?'. Murray Bookchin
We can only overcome the ideology of dominating nature by creating of a society without hierarchical structures or economic classes.
Bookchin claims that industrial growth isn't the result of a change in a cultural outlook alone, nor is it due to the impact of scientific rationality. Rather it stems from the principle of the market itself, the demand to grow or die.
http://www.thegreenfuse.org/socialecology.htmSocial dominance theory (SDT: Sidanius & Pratto, 1993, 1999) was proposed to explain the pervasive nature of status hierarchies and intergroup prejudice worldwide. The theory consists of three core points: (1) group hierarchies are established to minimize group conflict in a society: (2) these hierarchies are maintained through ideologies that promote group inequality: and (3) to work effectively, these ideologies must be widely accepted within a society and must appear to be self-apparent truths. Because these ideologies appear to be self-evident, they are referred to as legitimizing myths (Pratto, Sidanius, Stallworth, & Malle, 1994).
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-530916/Learning-and-unlearning-the-myths.htmlThe act of telling the truth to a society long dominated and controlled, fed on lies, Suddenly the liars go absolutely crazy in trying to destroy you or hurt you in any way that makes you shut up and others not listen to what you are trying to communicate..
http://www.helium.com/items/796821-assessing-democracy-rootsegalitarian-democracy http://debrakline.com/anth4.htmhttp://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3248-democracy-beats-despotism-in-the-animal-world.htmlhttp://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E6DB1E38F930A25757C0A9629C8B63