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    The Second Primer on the Organization Tier
    The Second Primer on the Organization Tier
    The Second Primer on the Organization Tier
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    The Second Primer on the Organization Tier

    By Razie Mah

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    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.

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    PublisherRazie Mah
    Release dateApr 25, 2015
    ISBN9781942824046
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      The Second Primer on the Organization Tier - Razie Mah

      The Second Primer on the Organization Tier

      Razie Mah

      Published for Smashwords

      7815 U0’

      2015 AD

      Notes on Text

      The fifth primer concerns the organization tier, appearing in the chapter on presence in the masterwork, How To Define The Word Religion.

      Single quotes and italics are used to group words together.

      In order to translate from Ubaid Zero Prime to Anno Domini, subtract 5800.

      Table of Contents

      Modern Economics

      ContentaB Becomes An Interscope

      Models For The Content Level Interscope

      The Local Bakery

      The Situation LevelbB Becomes ExchangebB

      Modern Economic Abstractions

      Quality And Demand1bB

      Exchange And Price2bB

      Manner Of Exchange Or The Market3bB

      The Perspective Or Assessment LevelcB

      The Commodity Fetish

      Capital

      Conclusions

      Modern Economics

      0001 Technology allows mass production of manufactured goods. In modern businesses, all three levels of the organization tier become oriented to commodities.

      This development raises a host of questions.

      For example, does the metaphorical ego of the upper tierC call individuals to become interchangeable components in an organizational scheme?

      Look around you. Are you in a classroom, with identical desks, all facing in one direction? What does that imply?

      0002 Nevermind that. Ignore reality for a moment.

      The metaphorical egos of the upper tierC call each individualA into organizationB.

      This is natural. We are called into friendship, family, teams, bands, communities, mega-bands and tribes. These are the social circles of the Lebenswelt that we evolved in. In these organizations, we find joys, friendships, challenges, and heart-breaks.

      Is this what life ought to be in a world of organizational charts?

      0004 Do individuals enter organizations with innate expectations of friends, family, teams, band and tribe, only to find those expectations confounded, leading to alienation? Do alternate institutions arise by interpellating alienated individuals? Do these alternate institutions harvest alienation in the same way that Marx’s theories harvest resentment? Is alienation the new resentment? If so, does the organization tier of globalization contain, within itself, the seeds of its own negation?

      Wow.

      0005 Or, should I say, What?

      The modern economies of mass production and international trade are completely different than the artisanal and agricultural economies of pre-revolutionary France and Russia. The Paris of 7590 U0’ has more in common with ancient Uruk than the postmodern Paris of 7800 U0’. The same goes for Moscow.

      0006 From 7600 U0’ on, technology-based mass production, plus international trade, dramatically increases specialization. The empirical sciences are born, furthering our understanding of technology. More specialization follows. From 7750 U0’ on, the computer revolution starts. More specialization follows.

      The sciences of material cognition have been conceived. A second singularity, as profound as the first, may soon be underway.

      God help us!

      ContentaB Becomes An Interscope

      0007 The complexity of business operations increases during the Age of Ideas. Business corporations have become more transparent.

      Why?

      Is it so the owners can see through them, in order to assess causes for flourishing or suffering?

      Or, is it so highly specialized operators have guidelines for interacting?

      Or, are there many motives?

      0008 Under these conditions, the content level of the organization tier differentiates into an interscope. This

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