Whether you like it or not some people are better than others, the reason they're "better" may be argued, but it'd be naive to think that differences doesn't matter at all.
There's an interesting description by Anthony Wong, a Hong Kong actor, regarding discrimination. The original is in Cantonese, but in English the idea is that, "discrimination" is a pretty new term that's more and more widely used in society, and prehaps overused. If someone calls another person a bad person simply by looking at their skin colour or language they speak, that's an act of discrimination, but if someone got treated poorly because say, they commit actions that affects the general public, that's people looking down on them because they don't respect their culture.
There are some things I disagree about this statement, but he's mostly right.
If there is no seperation between anyone and anything, there truly is no point to try to be a better person. You can absolutely argue the fact that the way people express hierarchy is terrible, but to say that hierarchies should be abolished is the exact same as saying we should all pretend that being collectively terrible is a good idea.
What prompted this is actually because of Ingress, recently we (the Enlightened, a faction of the game), had the first victory in Hong Kong after more than 10 years of Resistance dominance. Winning for the first time like this is of course delightful, but then looking back the fact that this happened to begin with is because there are certain people on the Resistance who only cares about absolute doninance in a literal sense. Not to say that the Enlightened doesn't have its own problems, but from an ENL's perspective the difference between 2 factions is that one is more comfortable over the other purely because of the way 2 factions generally look at hierarchy.
Hong Kong people, combining the culture of Canton and British, have historically (in less than 200 years) been very hierartical, I myself am like this too. Whenever I talk to people on other online communities, I'm often suprised by how much they just don't care, and at times I became the problem simply because I want to care. It isn't even the fact that they don't care that makes it annoying, it is with how they all collectively pretend to care, then calls people out for caring.
Now of course even in Hong Kong there are still (a lot of) things that people don't care about at all, but people actually do care a whole lot about things that matters. Say you have an objective (in this case to get as many points as possible while preventing the opposition from doing so), the way you try to accomplish it may be different, but you are still aiming for it, because you care about the hierarchy, you care about an outcome that you're putting effort to reach.
So this essentially suggests that both sides think hierarchically. This doesn't just happen in a competitive setting, because if you care to think that your preferences, regardless of importance and morality, has any degree of external importance, it doesn't matter how progressive you think you are, you are hiearchial.
And that's okay.
Now to why I say that I prefer the (Hong Kong) Enlightened over the Resistance, it is because of how people in it generally look at hierarchy. In the Enlightened, hiearchy exists in the sense that people can do better than they did, in the Resistance, it exists in the sense that one should look down on the other. It's not about how people obey or disobey, it's about how they look at themselves and by extension how they want to look at themselves.
I'm grateful for all the people, whoever they are, who have taught me how people are different, even though everyone no matter who are still equally inherently terrible, or at least I like to think about it that way.
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