The individual is the smallest unit of social reality but not the most important in explaining many phenomena, including the disorganization of the world. One reason organizations are absent in the standard explanation of social, economic and political phenomena is overemphasis on the individual. Freedom, morality and equality are fundamental concepts of being human. And the experience of otherness expresses the essence of humanity. The potential for action and the influence of an individual as a single person is limited compared with the performance power of the same individual within an established organization. Individuals are insignificant on two accounts: first, in terms of what makes them, as persons, dependent on the context of organizations, on their memberships and attachments to them. Second, to the extent that their physical prowess to act is low, relative both to what the same individuals can accomplish within organized contexts and to what other established organizations achieve.