It's Time to Build Institutions
28 points by amirGi 3 years ago | 7 comments- michaelhoney 3 years agoYes! But also: making existing institutions better is almost certainly going to provide better cultural ROI that starting new ones. Part of what makes institutions institutions is that they _endure_. Look around your local culture and find an institution that could be doing a great job, but isn’t: that’s the leverage point.
- pyuser583 3 years agoOne of the problems is looking at institutions in terms if ROI. They have value in and of themselves.
I guess we both favor preferring existing institutions, so I’m disagreeing with your conclusion.
But there’s a word for favoring existing institutions: “conservativism.” Not many people on this board like that word.
- robbedpeter 3 years ago"Cultural upcycling" has a nice ring to it.
- pyuser583 3 years ago“Hacking modernity?”
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- adamsiem 3 years agoObama on 4/7/22 re: Ukraine:"WE FORGOT THE POST-WW2 60-YEAR STRETCH IS THE ANOMALY. There is millennia of brutality. We created institutions out of 60 million people dying. They are not self-executing. They are something we have to continually nurture and respond to." https://youtu.be/V4bDuFJuriw?t=525
- ktpsns 3 years agoDevils advocate: if "Making institutions" means "making foundations", this also means a rather inefficient way of using money. Foundations are conceptually built with a capital stock which must never decrease, so they are typically allowed to only operate with the capital gains/interest rates. In effect, this allows them to move much slowlier, because they are way less solvent then they could be, if their capital stock was available to do business.
- diordiderot 3 years agoI find it really annoying how, for lack of a better word, lame things like freemasons be and Shriners have become.