More Than By Human Action

How do these creatures called principalities come into existence? As an organic, living being, how does an institution become born? What is its point of conception? Traditions, nationhoods, ideologies - from what loins are these generated?

There are no full or satisfying answers to these questions. Their exact origins are always a mystery and can never be fully known. What is knowable about their origins is always partial, ambiguous, limited, and fragile. We do know that humans are privy to the public inception of institutions, that is, that in certain times and places people met and consulted and acted in concert. But it is also certain that human privity alone is insufficient to be able to secure the birth of the creaturely identity of any principality. Human action, therefore, is in an of itself too simple, too transient, too partial and fixed within its own limitations to support the supposition that organizations are creatures simply made by people.