Other commentators, however, contrast this "pragmatic conservatism" with a universalist "rational conservatism" that is not sceptical of reason, and that regards a community with a hierarchy of authority as most conducive to human well-being (Skorupski 2015).
This account suggests that while all startups begin by looking like GitHub1.0 during the "search" phase of their lives, eventually, the scale and the need to implement a chosen solution in a stable manner dictates that they end up looking like GitHub 2.0 with a well-established hierarchy of authority.
Rational conservatives are, who maintain that a community with a hierarchy of authority is most conducive to human well-being though they also regard agent-relative virtues such as loyalty and patriotism as fundamental, holding that it is universally true that patriotism is a virtue.
In this way, my father inadvertently created in my mind a hierarchy of authority that I could turn to--people more powerful even than he was--to survive the terror he inflicted on his family in the name of respect.
We might use specialized terms drawn from narratology, the study of narrative, like "focalizer" and "heteroglossia" -- referring, respectively, to the character from whose point of view a narrative is implicitly or explicitly relayed, and the way some novels present a variety of voices without submitting them to a hierarchy of authority.
Respect for administrative boundaries and the hierarchy of authority were reported to often make health workers reluctant to contact their peers in other health facilities.
Such a condition of universal upward striving is unimaginable in a traditional society and could be seen only as a dangerous threat in a society built on established hierarchies of authority.
