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I call this "history as interpreted" drawing on the work of John Dewey and Thomas Alexander who call this a "mythos." For Alexander, a "mythos" isn't a false story, but an organizing narrative of where something came from, where it is going, and its assumed place in a social world. A mythos gives us context for how we can and cannot transact with it.

Mythoi don't need to be narratives, they can be slogans: "move fast and break things" is a mythos which animates Meta/Facebook.