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A key insight or dreconceptualization
Mit energetyzujący, mit mobilizujący i wspólny mit

You see a Key Concept, one of the most important principles according to which the world in general and the world of people operate.

These concepts are referenced throughout the Patterns series, including the Patterns for Victory series and Us or Them!. A concise summary and two or three key examples are provided at the beginning of each volume. See other key reconceptualizations.

A key concept in a book Forces of Psychohistory

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The energizing myth, the mobilizing myth, and the shared myth

Such myths are the forces that allow communities to undertake the act of building a thousand-year empire. They are also the forces that cause an entire nation to collectively agree to sacrifice in order to build a better, proud future for its children.

Such myths are also packages of "acts of faith establishing world order" that allow for the creation of stable and prosperous societies.

They are a form of ideology. They are a package of culturally defining parameters, a set of beliefs and normative claims about the future and other groups of people, that justifies (gives the right to) dominate other people or use coercion or force against them in order to subordinate them in a hierarchical system and simultaneously seize their material resources.

This package has an energizing effect in that it stimulates large groups of people to work toward building a "bright future"—people who believe that "the future is theirs" because they are better than members of other groups based on any characteristic, such as race, level of civilizational development, or the right to regain dignity and honor. An example is the vision of a "thousand-year Reich" in 1930s Germany.

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