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Jiang frames the burial of the dead as a sacred matter in Greek belief because the unburied dead cannot find peace in the afterworld.
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Afterworld
Bronze begins as a weapon, becomes status, hardens into currency, and then teaches the world the dangerous rhythm of capital: rapid growth, total interconnection, elite consolidation, and sudden collapse.
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Bronze begins as a weapon, becomes status, hardens into currency, and then teaches the world the dangerous rhythm of capital: rapid growth, total interconnection, elite consolidation, and sudden collapse.
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"...only by burying the dead can they find peace in the afterworld. Okay? So it's a very serious thing not to bury the dead...."
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"...know that he can't take the stuff with him to the afterworld, but it doesn't matter. All you're doing is, you're acknowledging his contribution..."
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"almost as a skull becomes a portal into the afterworld okay so you can draw on their wisdom you can draw on their spirit..."
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"...grave was not meant just to send this individual into the afterworld but also to remember him or her and his or her achievements..."
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"...of Troy, Hecuba's daughter, in order to accompany him in the afterworld. So, either, uh, so all her daughters have either been killed by..."
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Bronze begins as a weapon, becomes status, hardens into currency, and then teaches the world the dangerous rhythm of capital: rapid growth, total interconnection, elite consolidation, and sudden collapse.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
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