BY DANIEL JUPP

Jupp’s First Law of Institutions:

The bigger the institution becomes, the more areas of human life it will declare a compassionate interest in. And this claim of compassionate interest will grow in direct proportion to the reality of the institution becoming ever more divorced from its founding principles and intentions. Eventually the institution will care about and interfere in everything but will be entirely malign in doing so and fundamentally opposed to the aims on which it was founded. Declared compassion and rampant corruption will be the exact same thing, with the first acting as the public excuse for the second.

Jupp’s Second Law of Institutions:

The institution may well be founded on a principle of doing good for others. It is inevitably the case that the institution will soon come to regard doing good for itself as the same thing as doing good for others. The interests, power and influence of the institution becomes the purpose and function of the institution and its only measure of what is good. Whatever increases its power is to the public good, even if it quite clearly isn’t. When asked to justify its power and influence, the institution can only refer to its power and influence, since it has long since assumed that the only good which exists, exists within itself and for itself.

Jupp’s Third Law of Institutions:

When the institution reaches a peak of power and influence, its actions and policies will be the exact opposite of the actions and policies it was founded to enact, provided that these were originally benevolent to the majority of the populace that sustains it. If it was founded to educate, it will instead indoctrinate. If it was founded to inform, it will instead deceive. If it was founded to preserve something of worth, it will instead condemn that thing as worthless. If it was designed to represent the people, it will misrepresent the people. If it was originally a measure against corruption, it will become a mechanism of corruption. The only institutions which do not reverse their intent, are the ones which begin as malign in the first place.

Jupp’s Fourth Law of Institutions:

The institution will likely begin with a respectable intent and a moderate reputation. By the time it has achieved complete domination of its original sphere of operation, it will have disreputable intentions and an unassailable reputation. People will worry more about harming the reputation of the institution by revealing its crimes, than they do about the fact that it is now committing crimes and does so with increasing impunity and arrogance.

Daniel Jupp is the author of A Gift for Treason: The Cultural Marxist Assault on Western Civilisation, which was published in 2019. He has had previous articles published by Spiked, The Spectator and Politicalite, and is a married father of two from Essex.