Hierarchy

So... if I’m a lobster... and I’m at the bottom of a dominance hierarchy... and I want to fight the lobster at the top of the dominance hierarchy.... do I have to fight my way to the top of the dominance hierarchy one lobster at a time? Or do I just fight the lobster at the top? Yeah.... that’s what I thought.

Hym “Yeah, see. This is why your hierarchy thing is bullshit. Hierarchy doesn’t prevent the lobsters at the bottom from fighting the lobsters at the top. And here you are trying to run away. Scuttling your little lobster legs off. Trying to put as many lobsters between me and you as possible. And you need that. Yeah need the other lobsters to protect you. Which is not how lobsters work. And you need me to be obstructed be artificial hierarchy. Because what happens if I’m not? Everyone finds out you’re a charlatan and you lose everything? Is that what happens?”

by Hym Iam November 6, 2022