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DIS / HESS / LESS: Destabilizing Ideologies and Systems as Involuntary Extraction Economies and Efficient Alternatives

Traditional sociology inventories durable hierarchies as separate -isms — racism, sexism, classism, and others — with robust description but no single mechanism that explains their shared persistence under objective abundance. This Perspective proposes Destabilizing Ideologies an...

HEDII and LESS: Heuristic Error Drift and the Sociology of Low-Energy Stabilization

This Perspective proposes a systems sociology explanation for the persistence of durable social hierarchies — including racism, sexism, and other forms of categorical stratification — under conditions of material abundance. Building on ESC/HSC (Live→Belong→Gather→See), HBC (PDS→S...