I don't think it merely a social construct, or that the problem is that too few people believe in it. My point is that sometimes efforts to fulfil its promises have resulted in the promises being further out of reach.
The thing about a convenient fiction or illusion of this sort is that the duty to preserve it constrains abuses. In this way it is very different from, say, the value of a US dollar. So I think you are discussing the rhetorical norm (which is a social construct) while I am discussing the promise which is forever out of reach.
The thing about a convenient fiction or illusion of this sort is that the duty to preserve it constrains abuses. In this way it is very different from, say, the value of a US dollar. So I think you are discussing the rhetorical norm (which is a social construct) while I am discussing the promise which is forever out of reach.