This note is a part of my Zettelkasten. What is below might not be complete or accurate. It is also likely to change often.
11th July, 2020

Stories can be dangerous

Humans create stories and when enough people believe in them they become part of Our collective, imagined reality.

Problems arise if we start believing more in stories than in objective reality and cause real suffering in services of a story, an imaginary reality.

  • Most wars are fought on ideological differences (differences in what stories we believe - can be religion, or anythin else)
  • religion/caste/language/culture based violence and discrimination