“All humans live inside the dreams of dead people… born into a world shaped by the myths of their ancestors, none of them ever really breaks free”

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“EVERY society is based on imagined hierarchies… fictional stories determine who gets which opportunities.”

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“Evolution has no master plan. The functions performed by organs are constantly changing and the way they evolve doesn’t follow any predetermined path”

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“Free association and holistic thought have given way to compartmentalization and bureaucracy.”

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“History was made by very few people while everyone else plowed fields and carried water buckets.”

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“Humans invented a whole bunch f stuff. Gods, nations, money, you name it. But take a closer look… and it’s the exact same thing again and again—unfair hierarchies”

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“In the last few decades we’ve invented countless tools that are meant to save time… but in spite of all that, I’m constantly rushed off my feet”

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“Large scale warfare isn’t a universal human characteristic. It was invented… then it spread like the plague”

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“Romanticism tells us that to live life to the fullest, we need more feelings and more experiences. So romanticism and consumerism are perfect bedfellows.”

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“Stories are just tools we create to help people… if they do more harm than good, we should change them.”

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“Switching from mother’s milk to goat’s milk and gruel weakened your children’s immune systems… we wanted to create the perfect place for humans but we accidentally created the perfect place for germs”

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“The only way to change an existing imagined order is to substitute it with another imagined order.”

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“There are twin pillars to every large-scale human order—mythology and... bureaucracy. It’s the same with kingdoms, empires and even modern states. They’re all based on myths.”

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“Unlike ants, humans have no instinct for mass cooperation... There wasn't time for a new instinct for mass cooperation to evolve”

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“We all believe in some kind of imagined order. Not because it’s objectively true—nuh-uh! It’s just that believing in it helps us cooperate and keep society in better shape.”

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