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Jiang defines it simply as the study of other cultures and uses it as a method for reconstructing early human religion.
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anthropology
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Jiang expands Dante's two-will picture into a broader anthropology in which the will exists across infinite dimensions, and human work is to create harmony by aligning those layers.
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Jiang frames Talese's decade of sexual immersion for Thy Neighbor's Wife as anthropological courage: the book is disturbing because it shows humans as animals, but it also reveals that sex is fundamentally driven by a religious search for God.
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For most people in most of human history, money was not everyday utility but symbolic debt, especially a debt that could never really be repaid.
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He treats anthropology as a method for using living indigenous religions to understand the thinking and religion of early humans.
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Because the transition to farming remains unexplained, Jiang says the lecture can only construct theories from archaeological, anthropological, psychological or neurological, and primatological evidence.
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Jiang presents respect for elders as the theory that humans were biologically or culturally disposed to protect old people, making settlement attractive because hunter-gatherer life was hard on elders.
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Jiang says his own view, developed in the civilization series, is that human beings were mostly peaceful for much of history and that war is a later construct rather than an original human condition.
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"So Dante is putting this very simplistically. Okay. What he's saying is that there are two wills, the absolute will, your soul, the contingent..."
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"mid 40s, he decides to do something that completely went against the convention, the rules, the morality of that time. He decided to write..."
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"But the guy decides to become a manager at a massage parlor. He will go to California and engage in orgies. Okay? He will..."
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"Our need, our search for God. Ultimately, that's why we have sex. If you actually read this anthropological study of sex, you understand that..."
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"Um, that's a great question. Um, like when you if you watch my civilization series, I make the argument that, you know, for us..."
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"If you, if you were just a normal person, what were you doing? Were you in a village growing crops? If you wanted to..."
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"And the answer is, we have a field of study called anthropology. Okay? Anthropology. Anthropology is a study of other cultures. And if our..."
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"So for these three reasons the transition from hunter -gatherer to farming makes no sense and even today we are not able To explain..."
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"...That's so much archaeology Second discipline we can look at is anthropology and anthropology Is the study of other cultures So in other words,..."
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"Okay, so that's a third field we can look at the last field we can look at is primatology a study of primates, okay..."
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"...for whatever reason okay, and again, the evidence for this is anthropology where every culture Respects its elders, right?"
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"...call those people who dig the dirt to find old stuff anthropology archaeologists archaeologists archaeologists archaeologists holy i blanked out anyway you know you..."
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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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