<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Long-lived institutions can appear superhuman... > Long-lived institutions can appear superhuman because their actions emerge from many people and persist after those people leave. Understanding this distributed agency is more useful than imagining the institution as either a person or a faceless abstraction. **Source:** [[livestreams/Open Minds, Respectful Persuasion, and Institutional Power - Workbook|Open Minds, Respectful Persuasion, and Institutional Power]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Long-lived institutions can appear superhuman because their actions emerge from many people and persist after those people leave. Understanding this distributed agency is more useful than imagining the institution as either a person or a faceless abstraction.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-long-lived-institutions-person-faceless-abstraction ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->