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Collective Amnesia: Mistaking the World We Inherited for the World That Must Be

We mistake the world we inherit for a world that must be this way. History, habit and collective belief conceal a more uncomfortable truth: our civilisation is simply what did happen, not what had to happen.

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Suggestibility

…any system complex enough to interpret must remain vulnerable to the modulation of its own interpretive dynamics…