He argues that elites have always understood the world as populated by supernatural forces and have sought privileged access to those forces for power.
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Ancient Greece
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"...world. If you just read Homer and you go back to ancient Greece, they took that for granted where we're surrounded by these supernatural..."
"And the reason why is that our consciousness is interdimensional, okay? So our consciousness exists in infinite dimensions. And so depending on how you..."
"...why we've seen societies, that's why there's these mystery schools in ancient Greece, because to convince someone that your mind is more real than..."
"...of wealth transfer. And, well, I'd like to go back to ancient Greece now, because a key concern for people like Plato or Aristotle..."
"...military societies in world history Sparta is a city -state in ancient Greece um you may have heard of Sparta um a movie about..."
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The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
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