A standard Western education does not equip us with the language, skills, nor even the concepts, to fluently move between hierarchical and heterarchical perspectives and to understand them in coherent relationship to one another. Instead, we do what we have been taught to do: we mechanically abstract, extract, and reduce, and present these two inter-embedded perspectives as irreconcilable opposites that we must choose between, and in so doing, defend the one against “the other” at all costs.
