All radicals should be encouraged to form institutions. Much moral high-ground posturing and insufferable certitude are rooted in not yet having reproduced pre-ideological institutional pathologies that are the root cause of most things they critique on ideological grounds.
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There is no real defense against mediocrity. Institutionalization is the structural compromise between mediocrity and exceptionalism. An instrument of detente between the self-congratulatory esotericism of self-anointed elites and basic apathy of mediocrities they must rely on.
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“Institutionalize fast” is the “fail fast” of the human condition. The sooner any sort of utopian is forced into a reckoning with mediocrity of humans, the less painful it is. The longer an ideology persists in a pre-institutional intellectual state, the more cancerous it gets.
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Institutions are a means of healthy disillusionment of radical utopian sensibilities, as well as a delivery mechanism for consolation prizes of enlightenment cynicism, compassion, pragmatism, and live-and-let-live survival. Good things humans *only* accept as consolation prizes.
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No aspirational ideal of human nature survives first contact with actual humans. Institutionalization is a means to accelerate that encounter. When the committees form, the fever dream ends, people look at each other, warts and all, shrug, and start trying to get along.
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Some aspirations bake in assumptions grounded in an anthropology of a fundamentally bent humanity (‘crooked timber’) and aim to address some basic problems head on. #converse #DaretoDine #dinnerparty
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Yes, quite so, nowadays.
Broadly includes the private households as well as public eateries, or no?
What do you say?
(Keep the D in GDP!)

