• NutWrench@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The idea that “things don’t exist when we stop believing in them” is something that most of us outgrow at an early age.

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      6 months ago

      Object permanence applies to tangible objects, basically things explained by physics and constituted from energy.

      A nation is a construct of collective imagination, much like religion and economics.

      National patriotism is a religion which worships dirt.