The general way of things is that ‘the collective’ (or ‘the group’) decides ‘what is what’ and then enforces this decision on everyone else whether they like it or not. In a very superficial way therefore, this might be said...
Communication requires that there be no hierarchy - it requires that everyone involved be on the very same level (or rather, we could say that it requires that everyone involved to be aware of being on the very same level,...