By Dennet’s criteria, property, prices, and the state itself require faith. Any

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By Dennet’s criteria, property, prices, and the state itself require faith. Any time more than a few hundred people need to take independent action on a collective good, then need to have faith in each other. That faith comes from shared values. The mythical artifice that we wrap around that ‘faith’ is immaterial. Only that we share the myth. Even if that myth is the benevolence of the secular state.