Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Emerson would say that institutional people run the risk of losing their originality. The purpose of the institution is to homogenize, and those who don't homogenize get marginalized. The cost of joining is submitting to other people's ideas, to conforming to a pattern of thought and behavior as...
The biggest part of the problem is that our imitation receives public recognition through the institution's titles and awards. We imitate those who have come before us, then receive recognition for successful imitation, and finally get elevated to a position in which we can publicly recognize others for successful...
As soon as we buy into some institution, Harvard or any other, we risk falling into the insidious trap of believing that titular or institutional recognition is an honest and perfect assessment of worth. We risk believing that the first place graduate of Yale Law School is the best young...
Sure, we all know we don't believe that, not for now anyway, but over time the truth behind the title disappears and all that remains is the title itself. In a few years we are left with nothing but the class ranking, the MVP award or the Oscar. The...
Re "Will Men Ever Stop?": Besides the blatant sexism that has everything to do with a personal vendetta and nothing to do with constructive argument, Jenny Heller mounts an attack upon strip clubs. Urinate upon an altar, torture puppies, but for God's sake, do not attack the most sacred...