The Gain of Function institutional operation is essentially equivalent to The Divine Rite of Kings of the past, the damned rights of institutions today; from their ability to restrict information to begin with, up to and including their ability to inflict planetary destruction without consequence. Further, for all all extents and purposes the no taxation rate for these Gain of Function institutions/corporations is 0. The right of institutions to take advantage of whole populations via enforcement of law or instituting war. Institutional Gain of Function is oligarchical collectivism; of information restriction in the so called age of information and of resource restriction. Gain of Function experimentation is actually exactly the same format that institutions have developed for generations, as if some leviathan, only now biological instead of mechanical.
Institutions, at a very basic level as well as in an esoteric manner, are an insertion an idea or ideas into the future toward immortality beyond the individuals who create the idea. Institutions are a life extension of a person's or a group of people's ideas. This by itself is not necessarily corrupt whatsoever, it is just that as power tends to corrupt, as illustrated in Lord Acton's Rule, there is likely some level of implicit corruption in those institutions powerful enough to prolong their ideas into life extension institutionalization, for the good or bad or good and bad of groups of individuals. In order to make their institutionalization consistent institutions implement Gain of Function.
If an institution has formatted itself into an oligarchical/pyramidal construct where the mass of individuals are stuck below, under increased pressure, than there is a Gain of Function operation. If an institution sets of fair and square/circular inclusive ideas that do not seek to dominate or separate there may be some life extension format to it and less Gain of Function. Just like individuals might be decent or not, institutions are different as well, some good, some not. Some pertain to life extension of individuals, while others are designed toward Gain of Function for institutions.
In fact, the institutions of which are most problematic and the least trusted among pressurized individuals are typically the ones that have illustrated intense Gain of Function perversions, like an experimental virus run amok, created so as to be able to combat the problems at hand which causes more problems, as the release of a virus that has undergone Gain of Function enhancement would. Gain of Function makes institutional creations more bad more steadily in order to accomplish more good.
The very institutional dogmatic ultimate death philosophy related to the invention and implementation of nuclear weaponry illustrates it all too well; MAD, mutually assured destruction. Perhaps the grandest institutionalization of Gain of Function ever, and forever more, is and will be the implementation of nuclear experimentation in total. Nuclear experimentation has enhanced weaponry to the point that there is no defense against it -Gain of Function. Nuclear experimentation -weaponry and power generative technology- elicits total entropy of all life, liberty and pursuit of happiness on all levels, as does so many institutional constructs including the global burning of petrol fuels. Nuclear experimentation Gain of Function is perhaps the worst and the most lethal Pandora, but similar institutional droppings are constant.
What to do about institutional Gain of Function? We have to declare open information whereupon no institutionalists can implement clandestine Gain of Function processes. If information is open we all, as living breathing beings can decide upon it, rather than those restrained by institutional mechanics.
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