This is along the lines of a train I have been on for the past week or so, fulminating about institutionalization of authority. Reification is death - so much o

This is along the lines of a train I have been on for the past week or so, fulminating about institutionalization of authority. Reification is death - so much of what we do is taking organic, living masses dripping with pus and nutrients and clean them down to bone. "This is the essence!" we say, holding up this dead thing. Then we get surprised that our dead system has all sorts of deficiencies - abuse of power, incompetent dunderheadedness, fraud, deceit.