Community Organizers!

I don't have any real problem with "community organizers." Communities need organizations, and families need to be organized. I don't have any problems with organizations or organization. But what kind of organizations, what kind of organization?

Organized crime families are also community organizers. Nazis try to organize communities.

Some Christian groups are community organizers. Some only allow men to preach, some of these are rather disorganized and have allowed child rapists to preach.

Jesus was a community organizer, as was St. Paul, as was Martin Luther. Andy Warhol was a community organizer, as was Allen Ginsberg, as was Mother Theresa, and Malcolm X, ACORN was a community organizer, as is NPR, and every government agency is a community organizer.

One has to worry about too much red tape. One has to worry about wolves in sheeps' clothing.

Every government sponsors community organization, but some do it so as to better fleece the flock. Myanmar, North Korea, Red China, Cuba all organize the community so that they can't think for themselves. Universities that exist in such countries exist in order to indoctrinate the students. Some of our faculty at universities (Duke 88) follow suit.

Luther organized educational institutions with the "freedom of inquiry" in mind.

Some say this led to a breakup of church hegemony and to the rise of science, and to the disintegration of moral values, and the rise of atheism.

Nice job, Luther!

We are, according to scientists, a form of monkey, and except for orangutangs, most monkeys are social. We live in groups and bands and organizations. But how are they to be organized? Most biologists see dominance in any monkey outfit as the ultimate aim of the organizers.

What will be the ruling principles around which dominance is organized in a community? Is it to be competence? Is it to be party affiliation? Is it to be race, gender and class (or their opposite, which is the same)? Is it to be based on helping the neediest so that charity toward the lazy is the name of the game?

What kind of community, what kind of organization? Which organizations preach in the name of peace, and deliver us on the road to Serfdom? Friedrich Hayek argued that Marxists brought on the Nazis, and said they were the same as the Stalinists, in terms of their structure.

Freedom for competent capitalism, he argued, is the best organization, as it yields free societies without too much red tape. He did allow for some government oversight, but wasn't very specific about it. A little leeway to give the poorest of the poor some help. But how was this to be organized? What communities needed it? As soon as it's allowed in, highways to hell can be built with federal dollars.