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All power in our society is based on belief if you think about it.
My favorite example of this is the idea of money and finance.
There are trillions and trillions of dollars worth of imaginary wealth everywhere. None of it can be backed by actual product or material .... it all exists because we all collectively believe that it exists.
It's our modern day religion and we all believe in it and worship it daily ... All Hail Money!
True, although most wealth is held in the form of things other than money, which represent a legal right to power over various things, like who can live in what house, and what thousands of people at a company will spend their time working on.
Not really, otherwise we'd have read a sovcit success story by now.
Not nearly enough people believe their bullshit.
Belief is necessary but not sufficient.
Now I'm on board.