The comments are as fun as the article (for example: is something inside your stomach actually inside you?) but the subject is serious: whether we can make change from inside organizations (schools, universities, governments...). Maha Bali offers an analogy to suggest that we can: "Viruses... enter the bodies of larger animals, supposedly much stronger animals, and can potentially not only defeat these animals, make them sick, kill them, but also transfer from one to the other." And then there are probiotics that actually make the animal function better. But does this happen in real life? Maybe. Sometimes. "We have to believe that underdogs and marginalized people and agents of critical change can make a difference," says Bali. I think it would be nice if they could, but I don't see why we have to believe it, and I'm quite prepared to work outside institutions to make the change they most likely won't make themselves, with or without viruses and microbes.
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