Early domination stemmed from personal superiority absent pre-existing social organization

Evidence

In the beginning of societal development, the superordination of one personality over others must have been the adequate expression and consequence of personal superiority. There is no reason why, at a social stage with no fixed organization that would a priori allocate his place to the individual, anybody should subordinate himself to another, unless force, piety, bodily or spiritual or volitional superiority, suggestion in brief, the relation of his personal being to that of the other determined him to do so. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 7189

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: In primitive hordes male superiority was lived but not institutionalized — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 160; Early crisis discourse conflated domination with Gramscian hegemony — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 85; Early men preferred paternal rule because it protected rather than restrained them. — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 89 (+1 more)