But then he also says the dominance hierarchy is practically irrelevant to human society since we outgrew winner-take-all situations or zero sum games, which accounts for human progress. So he has it both ways, making an incoherent jumble out of his tirades. Or it’s a bait-and-switch maneuver: he brings out the dominance hierarchy when he wants to scare his audience, and he talks about progress when he wants to defend what’s going on.