As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out.
From Robert Shea
You are attached to what you attack.
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.
Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.
Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.
The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.
One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.
But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.
Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards.
To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.
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