Organization Can Be Useful

32 Organization Can Be Harmful Organization, however, like government, if extended be yond its proper sphere, becomes positively harmful to the original purpose. This fact constitutes the need for much careful thought on organizational limitation. Just as government becomes dangerous when its coercive, re strictive, and destructive powers are extended into the creative areas, so do voluntary organizations pervert and destroy the benefits of intellect when the capacity to merge is extended beyond the amalgamation of things - physical assets - to the point of causing individual judgments to conform to that of another person or persons. Truth, as each person sees it, is the best that the mind of man has to offer. Its distortion, inevitable when achieving a collective chorus, does injury to understanding. A Pernicious Idea Next on my list of subjects for appraisal is a pervasive and, I believe, a pernicious idea. It is the notion that it is always someone else, rather than one's self, who needs understanding. This ubiquitous idea is heard in several variations: "Weare only talking to ourselves," "Educate the workers," "Sell the masses," "Reach the man in the street." The "masses," "the man in the street," appar ently, are all persons except the one who uses these terms.