An argument for the return of our attention to areas of linguistic, artistic, and cultural expression outside of the domain of the institutions of our time, which dominate the cultural and social narrative the individual has to attend to, for the fact that they mediate most of our cultural, and cross-cultural, communication. We have to find other spaces (call them platforms, if you'd like) in which to express our concern for other facets of the human experience, which these institutional narratives seem to be forgetting, or outright ignoring.