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The entire idea that miles away, there is a big pool of water held back by concrete, and that physical pressure moves gigantic turbines, generating magnetism that turns into electricity that travels down wires until it enters a house and excites some gases...
It is pretty hard to comprehend, actually.
So I feel the same is true sometimes of social systems. Even when we objectively can understand that money isn't real and its value is set through a complicated process, that is very different from how we understand the money in our pocket.
And there are other social processes that happen even more intangibly, but that I more or less use when I think about how the world works. But if I use those explanation out of nowhere, it sounds like I am describing a turbine in a lake!
The entire idea that miles away, there is a big pool of water held back by concrete, and that physical pressure moves gigantic turbines, generating magnetism that turns into electricity that travels down wires until it enters a house and excites some gases...
It is pretty hard to comprehend, actually.
So I feel the same is true sometimes of social systems. Even when we objectively can understand that money isn't real and its value is set through a complicated process, that is very different from how we understand the money in our pocket.
And there are other social processes that happen even more intangibly, but that I more or less use when I think about how the world works. But if I use those explanation out of nowhere, it sounds like I am describing a turbine in a lake!
