35052Y204 But Ìt Wòrks! Fictions enable us........

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TO COOPERATE BETTER?
The price we pay is that these same fictions
also determine the goals of our cooperation!
So we have many elaborate systems of cooperation,
which are harnessed to serve fictional aim & interests?!
Consequently the system may seem to be working well,
but only if we adopt the system's own criteria!? For example,
a Muslim mullah would say: "OUR SYSTEM WORKS! THERE ARE NOW
1.5 BILLION MUSLIMS WORLDWIDE, AND MORE PEOPLE STUDY THE QUR'AN
AND SUBMIT THEMSELVES TO ALLAH'S WILL THAN EVER BEFORE!" The key question,
though, ìs whether this is the right yardstick for measuring success? A school principal
would say: "OUR SYSTEM WORKS! DURING THE LAST FIVE YEARS, EXAM RESULTS HAVE
RISEN BY 7.3%!" Yet is that the best way to judge a school? An official in ancient AeGYPT would say:
"OUR SYSTEM WORKS! WE COLLECT MORE TAXES, DIG MORE CANALS & BUILD BIGGER PYRAMIDS
THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THIS WORLD!" True enough, pharaonic AeGYPT lèd the wòrld in taxation,
irrigation & pyramid construction. Bùt ìs thàt whàt réally cóunts? People dó háve
mány material, social & psychological needs! It thus ìs
far from clear that peasants in ancient AeGYPT
enjoyed more love or better social relations
than their hunter-gatherer ancestors, and
in terms of nutrition, health
& child mortality it
seems that life
wàs àctually
wòrse!

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