A kind of hierarchical rhetoric

...social order we notealways involves people who communicateas superiors, inferiors and equals,and pass from one position to another.Such communication is always a form of address,a kind of hierarchical rhetoric,in which ... we justify our rank to ourselves and to others by enactingin various kinds of community dramasthe value to some great transcendent principle of social orderof the roles we play.- Hugh Dalziel DuncanCommunication and Social OrderPage 4 Global Online Privacy