Meditations and Learnings

Meditations and Learnings

"Formative" or "Performative" Institutions

In the 21st century, our institutions have lost the trust of the people. In part, this is because they have moved from being formative; developing and guiding the people that will best serve the institutions; to performative; constituted of people expressing and imposing their beliefs on the external world - signalling their belonging to one group or another.