In an earlier essay, I questioned the solidity of the human body through the study of microbiomes and language. In this essay, I apply this question of solidity to social institutions as a prolegomena to radical change. I develop a case study of the university as an institution that appears solid and immutable from the outside, but from the inside we see it as composed of divisions and disagreements. I apply Mark Fisher's insights on the resiliency of capitalism to understand resistance to change. This resistance is necessitated by the actual fragility of the order of things. I close by bringing three elements together—the politics of love exemplified by James Baldwin’s work, the abolitionism of DuBois and Davis, and the perceptual vantage of Black and Indigenous peoples that provokes and evokes the radicalness of democracy. The conclusion is that green abolitionism is not at all abstract. It is the lived or existential effect of acknowledging the science of climate change and what needs to be done in political thought and organizing.