The meaning of Ecos and Polis The instituted reality of the polis The quasi-permanence of institutions Rules, roles, and expectations Politics will find you The false dichotomy of individual VS collective Balancing the good of the place and the space The polis and, by extension, the affairs of the polis—politics—are always framed in accordance with institutions or take place as part of a process of institution, of setting up nodes in the political order. The instituted reality of the polis is made up of rules.