/lit/ - Literature

>>15505345

Nations (entities existing in our imagination) and fiat currency (pure bookkeeping) are both made up abstractions that aren't physically real. Yet because they alter people's actions, they are real to us.

In classical times kings would go to war or not based on divinations. Belief in the gods altered people's actions, thus the gods changed people's reality and were real as far as many people were concerned.

How is believing in a god any different than believing in the existence of nations or fiat currency? Nations and fiat currency exist because we believe in them. If someone believes in god, then god exists for them. If someone doesn't believe in god, then god doesn't exist for them. Our subjective realities differ.

>>8375797
>like the fall of an empire
Soon

>>6971873
The worst commieblock was still better than the permanent fixture of homeless villages throughout capitalist history.

>>5304040
Clap your hands enough, say you believe, and it'll become true!
>>5304046
Yes, because capitalism produces happiness.