The Tale of The First Hierarchy

A Tale of How The First Hierarchy Could Have Came to Be….

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Hierarchy

noun: a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.

Now you must imagine with me that we are travelling back in time. We are in a spiral of spinning, turning, whoosh. We were here maybe a million years ago. This story will leap through time, so please hang on and hear the story of the “First Hierarchy.”

Ok, so you see a storm brewing. Bang, a lighting blot shoots fire all around you, and you and your family not only realized it’s hot, but it is also dangerous. This thing, hot, red, flames now known as fire, burns your family and the forest to the ground.

Then a few thousand years pass and humankind hypothetically realized they could catch fire. Few thousand years pass, and wham! You discover how to capture the flame. Your ancestors learned that fire could kill animals, being deadly yet controllable. A few thousand years pass with the knowledge that fire burns but must be fed more wood.

That would have been an intelligent ancestor. A lucky one too. The one to discover that fire can be created could be sustained for warmth and protection, as the wilderness still feared this newly…