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Den organiserende art
Mennesket er den eneste art som behøver organisering. Alle andre arter og alle fenomener i universet er selvorganiserende.
Organisering har hittil vært ensbetydende med hierarkier som er rene maktstrukturer. Denne er rene tankekonstruksjoner som neppe har annen funksjon enn kommando og kontroll.
“There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.”
― Murray Bookchin (1921-2006)
"I feel that we are confronted with a revolution of monumental importance and while this revolution is in the hands of capital and the state, its impacts upon society could very well be devastating. I cannot foresee that it will benefit human society or the ecology of our planet as much as is will be utilized for domination and hierarchy, which is what all technological innovation, to one extent or another, has always been utilized for."
― Murray Bookchin (1921-2006)
“Traditional hierarchies and their plethora of built-in control systems are, at their core, formidable machines that breed fear and distrust.”
“When trust is extended, it breeds responsibility in return. Emulation and peer pressure regulates the system better than hierarchy ever could.”
― Frederic Laloux
“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
― Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990)
“The efficiency of a hierarchy is inversely proportional to its Maturity Quotient, M.Q. MQ = No. of employees at level of incompetence × 100 Total no. of employees in hierarchy Obviously, when MQ reaches 100, no useful work will be accomplished at all.”
― Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990)
"no amount of dollars can remove the inherent destructiveness off welfare institutions once the professional hierarchies off these have convinced society that their ministrations are morally necessary.”
― Ivan Illich (1926-2002)