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If you think that community needs a group of strangers to con them into coming together and being more than the sum of its parts, you are more cynical than I am
by Hasu 2y ago
If you think that community needs a group of strangers to con them into coming together and being more than the sum of its parts, you are more cynical than I am.
- jimmaswell 2y agoSociety at large depends on the collective belief in society. It would stop existing tomorrow if everyone stopped pretending it existed. Laws, court rulings, road signs, it's all imaginary, but the collective illusion allows us to accomplish a lot more than than the alternative.
- card_zero 2y agoNumbers, language, boundaries between physical objects, all imaginary. Space, time, meaning, France, you name it. Alternatively: all real.