I think I agree that we are "hardwired" for hierarchical relations. But we are hardwired for other things as well and the cool thing about us is that we can examine our ideas and come up with understandings, principles and new ways of relating to the world. We are not tape worms. Now, I could be simply an ego-maniacal tape worm whose sense of my own importance has run amok, in which case just disregard anything I've said. But otherwise think of the fact that we don't do quite so much slavery as we once did, and we've "progressed" on other fronts as well.

- NonE