You're not subjected to it. You generate hierarchy.

In order to have a hierarchy, you must have levels. In order to have levels, you must have entities that are different from one another in some sense. In order to be different from one another in some sense, they must differ along at least one relevant dimension. Finally, for something to be relevant it seems necessary that there is someone who cares about the difference; if no-one cared then presumably it would make no difference and so wouldn't really count as a difference.

So, for one thing to be higher or lower than another in a hierarchy, there would have to be some relevant dimension along which they differed and someone who cared that they differed along that dimension.

I'm going to assume that the relevant dimension is some combination of the objective properties of things and also subjective preferences; this seems simplest. So, for example, suppose there are two types of fruit: apples and oranges. Now suppose someone cares about how big each type of fruit is.

If no-one cared about the size of fruit, then being big wouldn't really be a property that made one type of fruit higher or lower than another. So if someone does care about how big each type of fruit is, then there must be some relevant dimension along which they differ and for which it makes sense to say that one way is better than the other.

Since people care about how big fruit is, we can say that the relevant dimension along which apples and oranges differ in this case is their size. So when someone says that one type of fruit is higher or lower than another, they are saying that it differs from the other along some relevant dimension in a way for which they care.

So for one type of fruit to be higher or lower than another, there must be some relevant dimension along which they differ and someone who cares that they differ along that dimension.