It's Time to Build Institutions

Yes! 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.

Obama on 4&#x2F;7&#x2F;22 re: Ukraine:&quot;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.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;V4bDuFJuriw?t=525" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;V4bDuFJuriw?t=525</a>

Devils advocate: if &quot;Making institutions&quot; means &quot;making foundations&quot;, 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&#x2F;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.

I find it really annoying how, for lack of a better word, lame things like freemasons be and Shriners have become.