A Revisioning of the Hierarchy

The modern Western Weltanschauung, affirming an empirical view of the world, tends towards a singular analysis of complexity. Compartmentalization and dissociation are emphasized, and reinforced by the structure of the Simple Hierarchy that the Weltanschauung promotes. Within human institutions, this structure characteristically gives rise to unsatisfactory political environments, which are rightly criticized by feminists. But the network which is advocated as an alternative appears severely limited in its capacity to structure complexity, and may be indicative of a loss of sense of qualitative structure to