Have you read the book Sapiens?<\/p>\n
It will blow your mind!<\/p>\n
If you haven’t got a copy, go and get one immediately.<\/p>\n
It’s the history of homo sapiens and how we became the most dominant animal in the world in a very short timeframe.<\/p>\n
Today I want to consider something that’s talked about the very beginning of this book.<\/p>\n
The fact that almost all of modern society is invented.<\/p>\n
It’s fictional.<\/p>\n
And the only reason it works is because…<\/p>\n
…everybody belives in it.<\/p>\n
If everyone stopped believing in it then our society would collapse.<\/p>\n
Which is why, of course, that’s never going to happen.<\/p>\n
But think about it for a second.<\/p>\n
What is a company?<\/p>\n
Nothing. It’s something on a piece of paper that says it exists and has legal rights.<\/p>\n
But then what are legal rights?<\/p>\n
Something homo sapiens have invented.<\/p>\n
There is no such thing as law, we’ve imagined it up, there’s no such thing as human rights, we’ve imagined it up, there’s no such thing as companies or money.<\/p>\n
They’re all imagined by humans.<\/p>\n
In biological terms, which is how a scientist would look at things, they don’t exist.<\/p>\n
We’ve created these things to give our society a way of functioning. And, without giving too much of the book away, our ability to do this is one of the resaons we’re such a dominant species.<\/p>\n
Now that may freak you out.<\/p>\n
But think of it like this…<\/p>\n
If we’ve imagined all these things, and the only reason they work is because everybody belives in them, then you personally are capable of doing absolutely anything.<\/p>\n
In fact, if you imagine it’s something you can do, then you can do it. All you need to do is get other people to believe in your imagination.<\/p>\n
Which isn’t so difficult \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Michael35<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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