Hierarchy, Relationships

Who is above you? Where do you rank and position yourself?

This is the question that sometimes makes you go round. Whirlpooled my mind since yesterday. (courtesy of my to-be employer)

Your Parents? Elders? Society? Teacher? Employer? The Minister?

Each of the persons mentioned above shares a considerable influence in life. Sometimes one or many of such relations create upon us some such form of undue influence that leads us to detest the very relation, the very hierarchy. Does the hierarchy really exist?

No one is really above you. Sheer misconception to place any of the relations above the self. Any religious soul would scowl at me for saying this and yet the sands of time led even the highly conservative and patriarchial Hindu society to some un-thought-of remains.

The only word that perfectly clips relations together is "RESPECT". Love has no role.

No employer or teacher or elder has any right to look at an employee or student or junior in a condescending manner. I do sometimes get entangled with Marx.

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."

Struggles between what?

Marx says : Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild-master [3] and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

Lets come to the point. No body is ever "above" the self. Marx never thought of that. Marx thought of a "We" and a "They". A change of one form of hierarchy to another. One division to another. One dictatorship to another.

I did not let my employer look down upon me. I looked at him in the eye. I respected him, he being my employer and I expect respect from him, I being his employee. There is no hierarchy. There is only relationship. It binds us in one whole and one whole we are. One whole of distinct individuals.