“What Makes One Sumerian City Better Than Another One? A Bigger Ziggurat? A
better Football Team?"
"Better Me."
"What Are Me?"
"Rules Or Principles That Control The Operation Of Society, Like A Code Of Laws,
but On A More Fundamental Level."
"I Don't Get It."
"That Is The Point. Sumerian Myths Are Not 'readable' Or 'enjoyable' In The
same Sense That Greek And Hebrew Myths Are. They Reflect A Fundamentally
different Consciousness From Ours.”
— Neal Stephenson —
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