04/05/2022
𝗔 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗲𝘀.
You can't operate a business nowadays without a whole team of lawyers and what is the function of lawyers? They have to write down the rules of the game so that we have, what is called the rule of law. A lot of people talk today about law and order and how it's got to be upheld.
Now, what does that actually mean? it means that all organizations business corporations bureaucratic government corporations are going by the book they are operating according to a manual and in many corporations, individuals have constantly to consult some sort of manual to know what they should do instead of using their own good sense this doesn't work It means that an organization is entirely different from an organism.
You, each one of you, are an organism a very very complicated organism that your nervous system facilitates. you don't know how you do it you couldn't begin to describe how your nervous system works and even neurologists don't know how it works and yet it works reasonably well because your brain can handle an unknown number of variables.
A variable is any identifiable process such as breathing such as the circulation of the blood such as the secretions of the glands such as the digestive system and so on and so on.
Now you operate those all day without knowing how you do it there are no there's no book of rules according to which you do this so in the same way if a corporation is to be a true organism as distinct from an organization it must be based on the principle of mutual trust and not on law because if you can't trust other people you cannot have a community not even a corporation it's risky very risky to trust other people because they may let you down but on the whole, if you do trust them the chances are perhaps what 60 to 40 maybe a little more maybe 75 to 25 that the system will work simply because they're trusted
And as soon as you've got a system where for example in a supermarket there are mirrors all over the place tv cameras watching everything all kinds of checks on the cashiers that they won't sneak off with something you've got a system that increasingly won't work because nobody will want to work there. One of the major reasons for hippies and dropouts is that human beings don't want to work under conditions like that because they are mechanical conditions and the mechanism is quite distinct from the organism because the mechanism is arranged on linear plans, the book whereas the organism transcends that.
We don't know how that means we can't write down how. because it's more complicated than any form of writing can express.
Now the computer speeds up linear calculation to a terrific extent but it still comes nowhere near the capacity of the human brain and so this is something that has to be recognized as a principle.
Let me give another illustration of it every corporation employs a number of people in research and one of the first things they had to recognize is that you can't put creative research people under the clock you've got to trust creative research people to fool around to sit about drink coffee or maybe whiskey and scratch their heads and look at blackboards and play and then suddenly some interesting result will occur.
but if you make them punch clocks and if you say these are the things that you've got to discover it won't work.
So the corporation has to make an act of faith in its research personnel it has to say we recognize you have an amazing gift called brains we don't know what these are but it seems that in the past you've been fruitful and so we're going to employ you to do your thing whatever that happens to be and we'll make an act of faith in you and invariably if they make that act of faith it will work some fantastic idea will come out not perhaps the idea you expected, in fact, it may not even apply to your particular business but you could always sell it to somebody else
Now this is a fundamental principle if there cannot be a community there cannot be cooperation and therefore there cannot be commerce which really breaks down and means being merciful to each other.
