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right okay he thinks nature is danger..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "segment_id": "seg-0031", "start": 2334.438, "end": 2419.46, "time_label": "38:54", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay, we're obsessed with control, right? 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Why? What word tells us this? Excuse me? Why is he ignorant? There's a word in here that tells us..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0040", "segment_id": "seg-0040", "start": 3055.02, "end": 3135.94, "time_label": "50:55", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Yeah, this is not studying, okay? This is not serious academic work. This is playing. It has no significance, no meaning, right? So what word implies that here? It repeats itself over and over. Pretending, right? Preten..." } ] }, { "term": "reciprocity", "usages": [ "Jiang glosses it as give-and-take; in hunting, it means permission, offering, and exchange with animal spirits or guardians." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0022" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0022", "segment_id": "seg-0022", "start": 1649.78, "end": 1710.33, "time_label": "27:29", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "the same if we're if we are the same as animals and plants what allows us what gives us permission to kill other animals okay and this passage explains it when men go to the forest to hunt or fish it is never a trivial..." } ] }, { "term": "religion of wealth, power, and war", "usages": [ "The rival later religion Jiang previews as explaining hierarchy, patriarchy, war, and conquest." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0044" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0044", "segment_id": "seg-0044", "start": 3338.028, "end": 3409.29, "time_label": "55:38", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "It means we have to be artistic because we have to celebrate and worship the spirit world. 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