Terry pratchett
The more you learn about how the human-built world works the more it seems like a miracle it works at all. The civilizational stack is a late-game Jenga tower held together by Narrativium.
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It ain’t that bad.
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"We weren't aware that civilisation is a thin and precarious crust erected by the will and personality of a very few. Maintained by rules and conventions skillfully put across and guilefully preserved “ - John Maynard Keynes.
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Great point.
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But one could argue that the fact that it works at all shows the magical constructive properties of Narrativium to make things happen. Ie: magic is real but we call it storytelling.
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