The Halo Hierarchy

So I've talked a lot about cyclical hierarchies before, like rock paper scissors hierarchies or the holy trinity or the system of checks and balances. These systems have three points on the hierarchy, with each point being equal to the others in terms of power and authority, but given authority over one another in a cyclical manner (paper beats rock, rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper). 

      I want to make this system even more complex. Since a triangle is the simplest circle in a sense, lets make the rock paper scissors system with many more points than just three. A true cyclical hierarchy. A halo hierarchy, where the same system of power is applied to 8, 19, 47, 65, etc points of power that follow the same power system as rock paper scissors. This can get extremely complex.

      A couple years a go, I tried to design a defensive system of a fighting force based on this system. In this system, you had multiple soldiers, each one was given the assignment of defending someone down the line, and that soldier assigned to watch out for another soldier, and that one assigned to another and so on and so on until the last one down the line is assigned to defend the very first soldier on this list, turning the defense of one another into a cycle. If someone dies, your new person to defend was the guy the person died was assigned to defend.

        You have this defense assignment while attempting to complete missions together. Your job is to keep the soldier you are assigned to alive while all of you are simultaniously attempting to complete the units objective you are assigned to complete. 

     This can be difficult to do if your circle is too big, but maybe reducing the circle to multiple units of three following the same principle may be easier to manage. For example, you have 7 or 8 units of three soldiers following this cycle defense system all trying to achieve the same objective and goals.

      Appling the cyclical hierarchy concept to governments and social systems I believe can genuinely stabilize volatile social and political situations. Cyclical hierarchies don't create a baseline equality like the sameness of communism, but it creates an equalization of power by checking and balancing the power through that rock paper scissors-like system.

This is pretty cool, huh!

Off to bed I go.