Mere Musing: Institutionalism -- Protecting the Phantom Man

Hasn't fully formed, but here's the beginnibg of a musing...

We see this behavior quite often, those vested with the position and duties of continuing an institution grow to see and interact with said institution as if it were a real person.

This is proven by how institutions are legally wrought. Look at Corporations. Rather than a coupling of many individuals together working toward a common goal by way of serving clients and customers it is legally viewed as an individual with many of the legal accountrements of a human citizen (protections, rights, assets, etc..). Obviously there are some very rational and reasonable factors going into this fiction. But what damage does it wrought when that which is to be spiritual, spontaneous, and organic is made into a phantom man.

Throw into the mix the confusion of identity when the protectors start to seem themselves fused with this illusion -- but that's for another day.