Institutions, institutions, institutions.  This is  a word that I had always heard and I always knew but for a long time never really understood, like ‘dichotomy’, or ‘fastidious’  or ‘friendship’. But this Monday I finally got my answer despite being able to read a dictionary for the last 15 years!
I had never realized how much power they held in the scheme of things; being able to shape our day to day lives and how we consume texts. And so like the Dutch controlling the export of diamonds in Africa, so too do institutions effectively control what media we have access to, being the ones who endorse and fund many programs and both make and enforce the rules of the industry, and that’s some freaky, scary stuff, yo. I’m sure there’s much more to this subject than what I’m saying here, but this is merely a brief interpretation.