  We present a fully perturbative mechanism that naturally generates mass
hierarchies for the Standard Model (SM) fermions in a flavor-blind sector. The
dynamics generating the mass hierarchies can therefore be independent from the
source of flavor violation, and hence this dynamics may operate at a much lower
scale. This mechanism works by dynamically enforcing simultaneous
diagonalization - alignment - among a set of flavor-breaking spurions, as well
as generating highly singular spectra for them. It also has general
applications in model building beyond the SM, wherever alignment between exotic
and SM sources of flavor violation is desired.
