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Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.


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If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.



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The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.



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Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.



Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.



Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.



Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.



It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.



Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.



The human body is always treated as an image of society.

The human body is always treated as an image of society.



Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.





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