Institutions grow ever larger. Generation by generation, the compliant edge out the wild, and conformity and obedience to hierarchy are now our most important survival skills.
To be integrated as components of the larger whole, we surrender our uniqueness, our compassion, and our willingness to stand for what is right. The most human among us become outcasts, because humanity is being cast out.
As organizations conquer nature and expand, they leave nothing behind upon which individuals might live. In a world with depleted resources and increasingly concentrated political and economic power, the choice is clear: Surrender or die.
We are evolving into a corporate species.