Storyteller, the invention of text & the power of fiction!

 Storyteller, the invention of text & the power of fiction!

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Animals live in a dual reality through external objective reality and internal experience. Humans, on the other hand, live in a triple reality that includes stories about money, gods, and nations.

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Humans think they make history, but history revolves around a web of fiction. Although individual human abilities have not changed significantly since the Stone Age, the web of stories has rapidly grown in power, pushing it from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age.

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Before the invention of writing, stories depended on the limited capacity of the human brain. However, since the advent of writing, humans have been able to create very long and complex stories, which are stored in stone tablets and papyrus rather than in human brains.

Characters made it possible for humans to organize entire societies as if weaving algorithms.

Literacy people are organized into networks, so each individual is just one step in a huge algorithm, and the algorithm makes important decisions. This is the essence of bureaucracy.

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Letters aided in the emergence of strong fictional entities, endowing imaginary entities with the ability to construct and dominate. At the same time, writing made it easier for people to believe in the existence of these fictional entities. This is because, thanks to letters, we have become increasingly accustomed to experiencing reality through the medium of abstract symbols.

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Letters also created the power to change reality.

Mistakes made by bureaucrats while accumulating power, they sometimes bite reality when text and reality collide.

There is thus an external reality consistent with the bureaucratic illusion, but it is only a forced reality.

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As the texts flowed into the modern education system, there were cases in which the real world stuck to the records.

When educational institutions began to rate people by rigorous grading, the lives of many people changed dramatically.

The rating has become a relatively new invention.

It is the mass education system of the industrial age that has begun to give regular scrutiny.

Early schools focused on student enlightenment and education, and grades were just one measure of success. But soon schools began to focus on getting high marks.

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The power of written documentation reached its apex with the advent of the Bible. Priests and scribes of ancient civilizations were accustomed to seeing documents as guidebooks to reality.

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In reality, the power of cooperative networks depends on the exquisite balance of truth and fiction.

A government that attaches value to a worthless piece of paper, the government has the power to force citizens to use this piece of paper to pay taxes, and therefore citizens are compelled to have some of that piece of paper.

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Fiction helps our cooperation. What we must bear in return is the fact that this fiction also determines the goals of cooperation. Therefore, even if we have a very sophisticated cooperation system, it is actually used for the goals and interests of the fictional entity. As a result, the system seems to work well, but only if we accept the system's own standards.

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When evaluating human cooperative networks, the results depend on the standards and worldviews adopted.

Human cooperative networks usually self-evaluate through their own standards, and their self-evaluation scores are high. In particular, human networks created in the name of imaginary entities such as gods, nations, and corporations generally evaluate their success in terms of imaginary entities.

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Therefore, when examining the history of human networks, it is good to stop from time to time and look at the situation from the perspective of a real entity.

Fiction is not bad. Fiction is necessary A complex human society cannot function properly without widely accepted stories about fictional entities.

But stories are just tools. The story should not be the goal or the yardstick. When we forget that it is just fiction, humans lose their sense of reality, and then humans make money for businesses and start wars for the national interest.

Companies, countries, and money exist only in our imagination.

Why sacrifice human life for them?