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Debt, inequality, poverty, war, depression, and artificial boom-bust cycles create anxiety that forces people to refocus their energy on work and wealth creation.
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Anxiety
Debt, inequality, poverty, war, depression, and artificial boom-bust cycles create anxiety that forces people to refocus their energy on work and wealth creation.
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Protestant direct access, egalitarianism, and justification by faith create new problems: confusion around the Trinity, sectarian chaos, and anxiety over whether one truly believes.
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Jiang predicts or warns that, when wealth makes people lazy and complacent, the system will destroy the economy and start World War III to recreate anxiety, work, and focus.
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The hard part of Jesus teaching is individual responsibility: no one can teach the truth for you, and many people prefer normal obedience to freedom.
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Jiang says free judgment is annoying to people because they would rather be told what is good, what is evil, and even what to eat for dinner.
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Industrial capitalism, in Jiang's account, is driven less by technology than by Protestant anxiety over election, which turns wealth into proof of faith.
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Middle-class society creates anxiety because status is unstable, uncertainty because wealth can vanish, and competition because status must be earned rather than inherited.
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Double predestination destroys the church's control over salvation but creates an anxiety over whether one belongs to the elect.
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"...really want people to focus their energies, you need to create anxiety in them, okay? Anxiety. And how do you create anxiety? Well, the..."
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"...class to work even harder, all right? The third mechanism of anxiety is wealth destruction. What is wealth destruction? Simple, war or depression, right?..."
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"is to accumulate more capital no no no guys the point of capitalism is to focus the energies of the peasants okay because the..."
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"And the third idea is justification by works. The second idea is justification by faith. The problem though, of course, is that these three..."
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"...The last problem is most problematic, justification by faith. This creates anxiety, right? Because if you don't really know God because of the Holy..."
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"...constantly focus and working. Okay? And you do that by creating anxiety, by destroying wealth, by creating a cycle of constant death and destruction...."
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"important idea is that our lives are infinite okay so we will die and die is a game reset okay it's just like you..."
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"the idea jesus can tell you what he thinks but you have to figure it by yourself okay and that's why this is so..."
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"...will enable us to seek the divine but this creates this anxiety in people because like oh my god now i have to like..."
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"...guys decide now it's completely chaos okay and again it creates anxiety in people people just want to be told what to do okay..."
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"at last reject even thy image and thy truth, if he is weighed down with a fearful burden of free choice. They will cry..."
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"Okay, right? You're creating all this anxiety in people for no particular reason. People were happy just being slaves, and now you free them,..."
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