Philosophyspeaking topic
If enough people believe a fiction for long enough, it starts to work like reality: money, countries, corporations all run this way. Are these things, with nothing behind them but shared belief, actually the most powerful realities governing our world?
— institutional reality, shared fictions
practice with this topic
Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.
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