Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive approach. It implies two conditions: a set of ordered relations and a contrevention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is a system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter, in so far as ordering involves rejecting inappropriate elements.