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>By cosmic creation story I also mean to indicate those accounts of the universe we told each other around the evening fires for most of the last 50,000 years. These cosmic stories were the way the first humans chose to initiate and install their young into the universe. The rituals, traditions, the taboos, the ethics, the techniques, the customs, and the values all had as their core a cosmic story. The story provided the central cohesion for each society. Story in this sense is "world-interpretation" - a likely account of the development and nature and value of things in this world.

>Why story? Why should "story" be fundamental? Because without storytelling, we lose contact with our basic realities in this world. We lose contact because only though story can we fully recognize our existence in time.

>To be human is to be in a story. To forget one's story is to go insane. All the tribal peoples show an awareness of the connection between health and storytelling. The original humans will have their cosmic stories just as surely as they will have their food and drink. Our ancestors recognized that the universe, at its most basic level, is story. Each creature is story. Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: "we must find out story within this great epic of being."

>>14100701
This was stolen from "Douglas Rushkoff: Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture" The chapter is here: https://pastebin.com/4s91qRn6

Full organicism when it comes to memetic activity is given by memetic organisms being extensions of living processes (minds.) Following the implications of this leads to huge implications.

>>14044011
An Emerging Memetic Singularity in the Global Knowledge Society: https://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs00s/singmem.php

>>13939194
>The demons may not actually exist
But they do tho
https://vimeo.com/129609470

>>12097532
What does self authorship look like? Is it not enough to pretend to be a character (or all of them) from out of Plutarch's Lives?

You're still in the capital trap. Power is a state. One configuration is the ability to direct capital.