Glossary
Removal from direct reality; in the city people no longer see where food, trust, or social support come from.
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abstraction
The ceasefire is surface noise.
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The ceasefire is surface noise.
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Making capital more abstract culminates in money as God: a symbol that is both nothing and everything and can consume an entire life.
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Protestantism and then the Enlightenment increase the abstraction and extraction power of transnational capital, culminating in money replacing God.
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Symbols in Ice Age art express abstractions such as energy, life force, cycle, repetition, and messages from the spirit world.
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Abstraction means removal from reality; civilizational maturity increases abstraction, individualism, atomization, and dependence on money.
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Urban modernity replaces emotionally embedded village life with money, clock time, abstraction, and institutional regulation.
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The move from village to city to internet increases abstraction and produces psychological problems.
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Jiang qualifies 'best religion' to mean intellectually powerful and attractive to elite administrators, not universally or morally superior.
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Symbols also let people represent abstract forces such as love, energy, repetition, balance, harmony, cycle, life force, and mythology that cannot be directly drawn.
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"...second trick is to make capital more abstract, okay? So the abstraction of capital. So let's use an example, okay? Grain was initially capital...."
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"will show you, the great innovation of the past hundred years is to convince people that money is God. Money is both nothing and..."
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"So what I will do is explain to you what the Protestant Reformation is. The Protestant Reformation radically changes how we see ourselves and..."
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"...okay? Why are there symbols in art? Well, because there's some abstractions, some concepts you cannot draw, right? So for example, energy is a..."
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"If you want to tell the story, okay? Second is you are trying to visualize the language of a spirit world, okay? So the..."
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"...you mature as a civilization, what happens is you have increased abstraction. Abstraction is just a fancy word for you're removed from reality. Okay?..."
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"...that holds people together? It's money. Right? Money is the greatest abstraction. The problem with money is that, it means we don't have to..."
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"There's really no God in his system. We are left to fend for ourselves. We are left to deal with the trauma of being..."
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"...made. The problem, though, of course, is this is all an abstraction. You have absolutely no idea where the food comes from. You have..."
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"So you go from the village to the city, now to the internet. Of course, this creates a lot of problems for people because..."
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"is so powerful that it will be adopted into Judaism and eventually become the basis for Christianity. Okay? But this is where it started...."
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"...religion and it's very abstract so what i'm saying is the abstraction is what makes this religion appealing right because the persians are trying..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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Societies do not fall because one problem gets worse in a straight line.
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Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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A source-grounded reading of Cyrus as the foreign messiah: exile hardens Israelite memory, Persian mercy becomes a strategy of rule, Zoroastrianism turns administration into cosmic truth, and Ezra's purity project prepares the religious machinery...
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