day no. 15,945: one of the last bastions

"I do not believe that God created an egalitarian world. I believe the authority of parent over child, husband over wife, learned over simple, to have been as much a part of the original plan as the authority of man over beast. I believe that if we had not fallen Filmer would be right, and patriarchal monarchy would be the sole lawful government." -- C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, Membership

Hierarchy is not inherently sinful. It is not an accident of the Fall, but the essence of Creation. Authority is not a consequence of rebellion, but a precondition of reflection. The creation bears the marks of its Creator and none more than the one created in His own image, man. In other words, patriarchy is not a bug of an imperfect system, but one of the last bastions of the perfect one.