Human beings are animals that although we have enormous similarities with some species, there are many aspects that differentiate us. So much so, that we are the only species capable of inventing stories, tell them and believe them. It can be called as imagined reality since they exist only in the imagination of every human being.
The human species can cooperate with people they do not know, simply because they share the same reality imagined. A perfect analogy would be the map of the political territorial division of Venezuela, since everyone would see the territory divided by states but from the space only mountains and rivers would be seen. States and borders are only in our imagination.
Now, if the imaginary reality did not exist, the imaginary orders did not exist, which would imply that millions of human beings did not cooperate with each other.
What is an order?
1.- On the one hand there is the natural order which is nothing more than that stable order. Example of this would be the law of gravity, if all of us stopped believing in it, tomorrow morning it would continue to work.
2 .- In the same way is the imagined order, which unlike the natural order, it would be unstable, because the moment people stop believing in it, it ceases to exist. An excellent analogy would be money, because if tomorrow we all stopped believing in it and saw the coins and bills as mere pieces of paper and metal the monetary order would fall apart.
3.- And together with these two born the alternative imagined order that to explain it, the best example would be the Bitcoin that for a group of people have stopped believing in the coins and the tickets, was born as a alternative imagined order.
In any case, for an imaginary order to disappear is very difficult, since it is an intersubjective phenomenon. It not only exists in your imagination but also in the imagination of millions of people you do not even know.
There is no way out of the imagined order. When we tear down the walls of our prison and run to freedom, we actually run to the more spacious playground of a larger prison.
- Yuval Noah.