The First Primer on the Organization Tier

By Razie Mah

Why a series of primers?
These primers provide in depth coverage of the nested form constructs in the book: How to Define the Word “Religion”.
Primers 1 and 2 developed the category-based nested forms discussed in “the meaning underlying the word ‘religion’”.
The next several primer address “the presence underlying the word ‘religion’”. This presence can be appreciated through a fully differentiated model of “humans in our current Lebenswelt”. Humans exist in society. Humans organize. Human live as individuals in community. Each of these modes of existence relate to one another as a nested form:
Society( Organization( potential of Individual in Community))
Primer 3 diagrams the individual in community. Primers 4 and 5 present the organization tier. Primer 6 introduces the institution level of the society tier, starting with an example, the family. Primer 7 reviews How Institutions Think (1986) by British anthropologist Mary Douglas.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Razie Mah
• Release date: Apr 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781942824039

Razie Mah

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The First Primer on the Organization Tier

by Razie Mah

Published for Smashwords

7815 U0’

2015 AD

Notes on Text

This is the fourth primer in a series introducing the masterwork, How To Define The Word Religion. It concerns the second tier in a category-based nested form diagram for the presence underlying the word religion.

Note: Italics and single quotes are frequently used to demark words that go together.

To convert from Ubaid Zero Prime (U0') to Anno Domini (AD) subtract 5800.

Table of Contents

What is an Organization?

Organization and Human Evolution

The Metaphor of Family

The Metaphor of the Team

Metaphor of Tribe

The Impact of the First Singularity

The Bevel Rimmed Bowls of Uruk

The Mill in the Medieval West

The First Unexpected Medieval Event

The Second Unexpected Medieval Event

The French and Russian Revolutions

A Note on the Importance of Karl Marx

Transition to Next Primer

What is an Organization?

0001 The organization tierB emerges from (and situates) the individual in community tierA.

Here is a diagram.

Organization and Human Evolution

0002 Here is a diagram displaying the actualities for all three levels within each labeled interscope.

0003 From the first and second figures, I can tell that I am already in trouble.

Why?

There is no third tier.

According to the logic of the categories, an unidentified upper-level tierC brings the organization tierB into relation with the potential of the individual in community tierA. The less apparent that this unnamed upper tierC is, the more the organization tierB becomes ephemeral. The organization tierB will appear and disappear depending on whether or not an upper tierC manifests.

May I call the appearance, order? May I call the disappearance, chaos?

0004 Given this logic, I find it easy to imagine the unnamed upper tierC as a selection pressure in the course of human evolution. When the upper tierC appears, our ancestors organize. When itC disappears, our ancestors scatter. Surely, the unlabeled upper tierC gives advantage, even though I may not be able to image or indicate itC with hand talk. How do I know? I feel it in my bones. The individualA who is called into organizationB has better chances to survive and reproduce than the one who is not.

Oh, it may be more than that.

Our desires are adaptations into the human niche. We desire to cooperate. We compete with one another for the honor of cooperating.

0005 Even though cooperation implies specialization, complexity is constrained during