liminal 🦠 on Nostr: "Human society is not a community of ants or termites, governed by inherited instinct ...

"Human society is not a community of ants or termites, governed by inherited instinct and controlled by the laws of the superordinate whole; it is based upon the achievements of the individual and is doomed if the individual is made a cog in the social machine.

This, I believe, is the ultimate precept a theory of organization can give: not a manual for dictators of any denomination more efficiently to subjugate human beings by the scientific application of Iron Laws, but a warning that the Leviathan of organization must not swallow the individual without sealing its own inevitable doom."
- Ludwig von Bertalanffy, General Systems Theory (1968)