The System.

Institutional sin is The System.

The selfishness and corruption of the multinational corporations.
The heartlessness of the establishment.
The fear and guilt manipulation of the Churches.
Domination through fear and threat.
Victory through violence.
Financial inequality.
Business conventions.
Hypocrisy about sex.
Profit motive.

The System ensures the domination of the rich and the persecution of minorities.

The hippies challenged the System in the 1960s - stopping the Vietnam War and electing a Labor government.

But the System had its revenge.  The Labor government was dismissed and the conservatives took us back to the fifties.  Blaming everything on the hippies - their political opponents.

Now we see the predominance of fear and the language of violence.

But how do we challenge institutional sin - the injustice which has ossified into the System.

How much do we care?
Enough to do something?
Enough to challenge the powers?

Or will we just slip comfortably into a niche in the System (out of fear).

The only thing which has more power than the corporations is the government.

If we care enough to elect a government that will act then they will have a mandate to regulate the corporations.

Tax and welfare is a kind of enforced unselfishness.

The corporations don't like it but it is the law.

They use their media outlets to oppose this by changing public opinion and (they hope) the government.

When public opinion is separated from the will of the corporations (the rich) then we will see a change in the System.
A more compassionate, more just society may develop.

The corporations' profit motive is fear of losing money.  Even if they have more than they need.

To bring about a change we will have to address this fear.

A fear which has been great enough to corrupt them completely.