We are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.

Patricia Crone
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When we look at all the different cultures and societies around the world we can see that all of them share a common bond. That common bond is the figment of human imagination, which means that they are not real. Our world is made up of things that have never existed before, so therefore, the world as we know it is imaginary.

Source: Preindustrial Societies: Anatomy Of The Premodern World

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