HIERACHY

FROM ON LINE DICTIONARY

“hierarchy

/ˈhʌɪərɑːki/

noun

a system in which members of an organization or society are ranked according to relative status or authority.

“the initiative was with those lower down in the hierarchy”

Similar:

pecking order

ranking

grading

ladder

social order

social stratum

social scale

class system”

I have never liked the idea that some people are more important than others

Actually I don’t like the idea that some species are more important than others

Some religious people believe that their God will only saved them

Some “New Agers” think they are at an higher spiritual level than others

When I was young I thought that there was something wrong with me because I disagreed with cultural norms and attitudes:

Now I am old and wise I believe there is something wrong with the culture?

The world according to me 

I wrote and published this sci fi short story a few years ago (under a different title) when the human population was only 7.4 billion:

(1st published 4th April 2017)

It is now 8 billion.

Our cultural norms and the Protestant Ethic are causing the extinction of all life.