Just about every human endeavor out there tends toward hierarchal structures - ones that do not are statistical outliers, and even then it's questioned whether all that's happened is that the hierarchy is implicit rather than explicit.
> Just about every human endeavor out there tends toward hierarchal structures
I agree, but why? It doesn't make much sense to me. Although I should have said "authoritarian" rather than "hierarchical".
> it's questioned whether all that's happened is that the hierarchy is implicit rather than explicit
In democracy, you can have hierarchy but it's not a big deal, because you have a formal rule that everybody has the same power (one vote). It is certainly different (although for some reason many people do not feel that way) than when there is no such rule.
