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Given current political moves in Canberra, now's probably a very good time to whack on the 3-D glasses and watch the new Alice in Wonderland.
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How do we get beyond an instinctive tendency towards hierarchy ponders one listener to All in the Mind
I have been thinking about 'the pecking order' and bullying. Early in human social development, sorting out this kind of social dominance would have been a survival issue, so I guess the tendency to do this is somewhat hard-wired into our brains - but obviously at great cost to those lower on the pecking order.
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