Social Constructs Quotes

"Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, sapiens have thus been living in a dual reality. On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees, and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations, and corporations." "How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined" "Fiction isn’t bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function" "It’s the invention of clothes, not nature, that made “private parts” private"