Institutions

When too much abstract intellectual thought has been poured into a movement or revolution that movement becomes rarefied, stiffer. That movement will start telling you how you should think about it and how you should think about other things too. That movement, in short, becomes an institution. This process explains why you get many small factions within movements disagreeing with each other, wasting time, highlighting divisions and neglecting the fundamental, emotional reasons why that movement was born in the first place. Examples of this happening are found in Marxism and Feminism. I would never call myself a Marxist or Feminist because Marxism and Feminism have become institutions, even though I agree with a lot of the ideas that issue from these institutions, like a fair distribution of resources and the fair treatment of all individuals.

Institutions and controlling ideologies need to be overturned if we are to alleviate many unnecessary problems of humanity. Individual liberty and freedom, subtly coupled with an awareness and consideration of our environment, is, in my relative view, the path that needs to be taken.