The Relational Dynamics of Social Hierarchies and Subcultures

By: Rion Williams
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:25:29
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Let's take a look at what's going on here and how it applies to you. We can also apply this knowledge and reality to a more powerful personal life and dating.

I remember doing this a lot through my young adult years; I would join a new subculture with it's own rules and hierarchy of status.

Often times there was an initiation ritual but there was always a hierarchy. It was usually quite clear who was at the top of the hierarchy.

Fortunately even back then, I was pretty independent so it didn't bother me but think about this; those people that base their 'everything' on their social group are going to feel like CRAP if they're not at the top.

If you base your entire self-esteem as if you were dependent on the social group or subculture you're in for your validation, you're going to be subject to the whims and power of others that are above you.

It may influence your actual behavior and you may do all kinds of disempowering things.

This is what's going on with mainstream culture and men. There are powers of influence that are programming men to be more and more the doofy, hapless guy whose super-girlfriend comes along to save the day.

The people doing the programming are higher up the social hierarchy. They are the ones with power yet countless millions of unsuspecting men are playing the same game. They consider themselves a part of that social culture yet don't understand the type of relationship that it is.

By default they are close to being an unsuspecting pawn in the power play of others.

The social matrix is by default a stimulus-response relationship for millions of people. It is not meant to improve them or for the greater good; it is meant to give more power and money to those who are at the top of that social hierarchy.

We used to have more men of guts and character because men used to be Independent. The relationships they had were interdependent (win/win) and they stuck to their values. They weren't being subliminally and overtly 'programmed' by someone else's power agenda.

They could instead think for themselves and have the freedom to truly develop who they were instead of sorting out the fragmented pieces of programming or becoming a social cliche like today.

When a man can step aside and take an objective look at the true reality of power and the macro-relationships that exist, he'll be able to have cognition of it's existence.

Then he'll be able to reframe his reality so that instead of just being programmed, he'll be able to think for himself and choose only the programming that adds value to his life.

He'll be able to think for himself and greatly develop his own character and independence like he was supposed to. He'll be like the great men of yore.

He'll also be able to not depend on any social subculture or 'group' of people for his own self-reliance and strength.

Instead he'll be able to take and add value to them instead of letting the group determine who he is.

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