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@WarnerCrocker It actually fits very well with the title of your blog post in that he suggested the earliest forms of human hierarchies were based in age and the emergence of shamanism which he proposed was a kind of defense used by the oldest in a tribe during times of scarcity. Simply stated, accumulated knowledge used as leverage, expressed as power over others. From there a myriad forms of social power-over other develop and become institutional systems from religion to nation states.