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Paul Coneff's avatar

Most religious missions develop a "system" to expand the mission. Then, sooner or later, most likely sooner, as soon as one or a few people gain positions of power, the "mission" becomes the survival of the system. This creates a closed system, based on self-preservation and self-protection, which undermines the original purpose of the original mission. Some, if not many, corporations, like the medical ones developed and controlled by Rockefeller with his bribes, never had a healthy, positive mission to begin with. The mission was always about gaining more money and institutional power at the expense of those being used and manipulated.

sharon's avatar

Yes Paul , and look at them now ! not a word that comes out of their mouth is truth . nothing but lies ! They have no shame , no empathy for mankind, and they don't care as long as the machine pays the bills.

Paul Coneff's avatar

The "show" must go on, even if it means throwing members under the bus of "business as usual." Unbekoming has done a great job revealing the history of the Rockefeller's mafia takeover of medicine. And all the systems, whether religious, political, legal, or educational - all benefit from each other, so there is motivation to remain the same and no motivation for real change in a systemic way. But fortunately, individuals can still choose to change and be educated and make better decisions.

Paul Vonharnish's avatar

We can continue to pick away at all the alphabet soup designates of corporate/capitalist construct, or simply accept that ALL human organizations are corrupt, period. Sorry this isn't a science exam. The most efficient organization is a *partnership* between two people. Sometimes it's called a marriage. The odds of success? Pretty good IF no one resorts to lying...

Add a third party and the odds of success plummet. Establish a committee, and all *physical* processes are delegated to non-committee persons. The committee soon becomes a political force... If you're not on the *committee* you're a non-person...

The establishment of corporate organizations only dictate the terms of individual and social slavery. If you're not part of the administrative *class* you're an outside physical or ethical object to overcome or defeat via policy. End of rant...

Big E's avatar

We have observed everything you described in every organization we voluntarily or involuntarily joined (except marriage because we don’t tolerate or engage in lies). Volunteer organizations are particularly problematic. They begin small and altruistic. As they grow, power, lies / truth shading, and loss of mission occur.

John Galt - the fake one's avatar

> Add a third party and the odds of success plummet. Establish a committee, and all *physical* processes are delegated to non-committee persons. The committee soon becomes a political force...

Overall true. Although I once worked for an organization that was an exception for part of the workforce, the managerial class was closely vetted so that politics was completely eliminated. The kind of people that is part of a group ( or committee if you will) matters. In fact that is the only things that matters. The non-managerial class was a different beast though - you only get so many of the 'appropriate' people to go around...

Rider's avatar

Institutions as conceived by the author could not survive without a regime of coercion. Take any institutional example: the FDA, the AMA, the Bar Association, the Republican and Democratic parties, veterinarian practice, labor unions, pharmaceutical companies, medical schools and practice, universities, public schools, all of these and many more depend on coercive grants of privilege by the state.

This coercive support guarantees reform will fail. For reformers lack coercive power and face coercive attacks: censorship, punishment, taxation, regulation, and barriers of all kinds. Institutions exist only to advance and protect the narrow interests of their members.

Institutions have never been founded to promote the goals they publically brag about. The AMA consisted of doctors who wanted to coercively restrict competition by imposing licensing in order to attain higher incomes, as minutes from their early meetings prove. Labor unions got coercive privileges to restrict competition from other workers by enforcing picket lines with violence. Public schools were founded for the purpose expressed by Dewey and James to indoctrinate children with statist-collectivist ideas.

Under a regime of coercion, non-coercive organizations almost always promote the false ideological doctrines pushed by coercive institutions. If they were to challenge some version of institutional nonsense and lies that the public has been sold on, their donations will disappear. This is true even of organizations that brag about supporting freedom and rationality.

Abolish the coercion and institutions and organizations will become rational and responsive to new discoveries and ideas. If they do not behave rationally, their voluntary support will disappear.

Ron Greenstein's avatar

"“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

― Upton Sinclair

“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”

― W.C. Fields

This essay is so deeply and broadly significant as to potentially include everyone's socioeconomic/political ego-mind identity with one or more manufactured CULTure of the world's institutionalized organizations. These concepts are alarm bells that herald Humanity's Great Awakening. Our receptivity and responses to these revelations are what matter now.

sharon's avatar

So is this how Big pHARMa and their supporting agencies came into being? They are this BIG behemoth that can't be taken down . So disturbing . And all involved with Big Insurance ......where does it end ? When they have 100% of our income ?

Pascal Bloemen's avatar

The solution is simple.

The solution is known already for a long time,

and is written down and explained thoroughly.

Read as an example the book:

“Democracy, The God That Failed”

by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

Fun and Prophet's avatar

I suspect that without massive increase in maturity and "righteous judgment," the patterns we see are inevitable.

Pascal Bloemen's avatar

I don’t understand what you mean.

What is according to you the best way to (not) organize society?

Fun and Prophet's avatar

Or, see the recontextualizing by Jesus when admonished for breaking rules against eating field grain on the Sabbath -- "judge righteous judgment." Which requires case-by-case unbiased insight, not just anarchistic negativism.

The inevitability of rigid institutions arises from the energy cost of making and remaking contextualized policy on the fly. People gather to cooperate for a purpose, and want predictability, safety, power, approval.

Generally, even the most inspired Rogues eventually wilt under the burden of keeping things fresh and honest. If they survive.

Or a new idealistic schema cements itself into place.

aprayerformonkey's avatar

Had to go to the Social Security office the other day. Enough said.

Mark's avatar

Coherent Reality: The Demolition of One On identification — with the self, the tribe, the machine — and the deferential distance necessary for survival. {Jan Wellmann (Jun 21, 2026) https://substack.com/home/post/p-202948251