What made sapiens dominant wasn’t individual brilliance. It was collective imagination—the ability to bind strangers together around shared fictions.
Money, nations, gods, and corporations are not stones you can trip over. They exist because many minds agree to treat them as real, and that agreement coordinates action at huge scale.
This intersubjective world is powerful and fragile. It can mobilize armies and build markets, yet it depends on stories staying believable. When the story breaks, institutions melt fast.
The “spark” is therefore double-edged: it creates meaning, but it also creates delusion. Humans don’t just live in nature; they live inside narratives that guide desire, fear, and identity.
The next question is who will write those narratives when technology starts writing back.