{The Mirror-World; and “Dreamers”}[28th February1978]

[Redbook2:108-109][19780228:1310g]{The Mirror-World; and “Dreamers”}[28^th February1978]

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My comments on Accountancy as Fantasy apply of course also to (for example) the commercial world (or structure) as a whole, and to the Law. Accountancy is just an extreme example.

The identification of the commercial world (or structure or system) as reality by those who operate within it (far more so, to do them[*=>] justice, than by [<=*]those who practice in Accountancy or Law, with respect to their own systems) may owe something to the general dependence of the commercial system on assets which have a physical existence – buildings, stock, money. But of course the physical existence to us of those assets is different from their commercial significance – less so in the case of buildings (e.g. shelter from the elements and enemies), more so in the case of money (especially paper money).

So a commercial insistence on reality tends to mean a concentration on assets (especially tangible assets) and their commercial relationships. Intangible assets receive some recognition, especially by the more acute (often more successful); processes within the minds of men may be appreciated but are often ignored or mistrusted (perhaps because they are not understood). This [approach] can be quite successful in successful times; but ultimately commercial success in the broadest sense arises not from physical assets but from within the minds of Men. In particular, 'dreamers', being in their effects unquantifiable (at least in advance) and in their nature incomprehensible (to many Men), are the ultimate source, within the World, of material progress (leading to all commercial possibilities) as well as cultural development.

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