I don’t understand how so many people seem to understand the concept just fine. It sounds oddly complicated to me. The concept to me sounds like collectively concluded delusion or like if society collectively concludes something to be objectively real, that means it’s objectively real. Maybe I’m not understanding correctly?
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Anything that goes away if humans stop thinking about it.
Language, gender, countries, borders, bank accounts, types of dogs, who can marry who, what goes on a cheeseburger, Christmas, all religions…
If all the humans collectively forgot about it, and that would cause it to no longer exist, then it’s a social construct.
What’s not a social construct? Rocks, water, air, the moon. Those still exist even if all the humans forgot about them.
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