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Over the years, people have woven an incredible complex network of stories. Within this network, fictions not only exist, but also accumulate immense power. The kinds of things that people create through this network of stories are known in academic circles as fictions, social constructs or imagined realities.
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Fiction helps us not merely to imagine things, but to do so collectively. Such myths gives us the unprecedented ability to cooperate flexibly in large numbers.
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There are no gods, no nations, no money and no human rights, except in our collective imagination.
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The collective imagination has its basis on certain common likeable and intriguing matters which may be related to to common goal or common practices as such.
This will attract the masses and the Imagintion of one will transform into Imagination of thousands and will have its affect until it exists.
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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