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The early Gnostics were egalitarian in structure and acknowledged that any member-even females!-might have a valid theological insight.
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Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.
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Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.
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That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.
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A few fringe philosophers are attracted to a vision of what might be tenDed the heat death of society - the idea that only dummies participate in organized activity and that the smart folks live on the margins, shoplifting and eating out of garbage cans.
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The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
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When it comes to inter-corporate fighting, an engineer who knows how to design a superlative computer has no more chance against an apparatchik than he would in the ring with a sumo wrestler.
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I think there may be ways to tame the organizational beast, though I have hardly room in this essay to do more than suggest that such means exist.
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Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.
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Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people who see the organization as an opportunity to advance themselves.
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