Counterintuitive Facts (41): How to Turn Lies Into Truth?

I. What is "real"? If you think money is real. It's just paper, or a string of binary code in a bank server. If you think nations are real. They're actually just collective imagination in our heads. If you think companies are real. They're just stacks of legal documents and human consensus. Most of what's "real" in the human world is essentially fiction. The only difference: some fictions died (no one believes), some fictions lived (everyone believes).

II. This is Hyperstition. This word was invented by British philosophy collective CCRU. It's a combination of "hyper" (beyond) + "superstition." Normal "superstition" is believing in non existent causation. Like sharing lucky fish will make you rich. But "hyperstition" is black magic that makes fiction become reality. Its formula is: Fiction