highlighting o-centricity

What are a list of places where our preference for focusing on "organism agents as the cause of everything" shows up, for the better and for the worse?

Examples might include:

• The Olympics, and the enjoyment we take in thinking about sports heroes in general,
• Our blindness to "the medium as the message", highlighted in that specific context by Marshall McLuhan,
• The media's obsession with treating whole countries and corporations as organisms, personified by a single leader,
• Madame Curie's comment that we should "be less curious about people and more curious about ideas".
• The way our "public relations module" often caters to a homunculus theory of the way that our own minds work,

and what else?

making fallibility work

Government administrations often serve up leadership examples which are culturally, and sometimes professionally, flawed. The message to take from this is not that we are better than our leaders, but that we all are obliged to nurture "6-ways nested" communities (i.e. that buffer sub-system correlation layers looking in/out skin, family, and culture) which however are made up of individuals who do this well on only 4 or 5 of the 6 layers of organization. This is not just "our lot". An average of only about 4¼ layers per person may be key to maximizing individual opportunity or "task-layer diversity", something that could well be a key survival trait for communities in the days ahead.