Institutions are intentional normalizers. That’s the definition of the word “institution”; an entity that exists to service an idea. To build consensus around i

Institutions are intentional normalizers. That’s the definition of the word “institution”; an entity that exists to service an idea. To build consensus around its attributes and parameters. Corporations normalize utilitarian agency. Government social policing. University thinking. Institutions never produced interesting science or engineering; people did. Institutions took all the credit.