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His alternative says humans were religious, artistic, and scientifically capable from the beginning, so civilization did not create those capacities.
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His alternative says humans were religious, artistic, and scientifically capable from the beginning, so civilization did not create those capacities.
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Art is presented as a social technology for combining imagination into society, belonging, and community.
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Jiang interprets Alzheimer's and psychedelics as states where socialization falls away and spiritual desire, song, drawing, voices, and a more-than-rational reality become visible.
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He frames great books and paintings as platforms or portals for experiencing the divine or entering conversation with the universe.
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Jiang contrasts Plato and Dante again: for Plato, good is pursuit of knowledge and evil includes denial of knowledge and shadow-making art; for Dante, more love is good and less love is bad.
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Schopenhauer's solution is compassion, art, and self-denial, a secularized Buddhist/Hindu logic culminating in nirvana through desire removal.
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Dutch art projects internal religious anxiety onto paintings so the viewer can contemplate and relieve that anxiety visually.
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Dutch depictions of excess reduce anxiety by letting viewers contemplate forbidden indulgence without performing it.
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"And that is the story of civilization that you are taught in school and that most mainstream academics understand. Today I want to propose..."
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"We could at any time in our history do all these things. Civilization is a device meant to gaslight or fool people into believing..."
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"We're trying to figure out how the spirit world works. We're trying to figure out how the spirit world works inside our reality. And..."
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"...this. Okay? So let's see examples. This is graffiti. Okay? Street art. But you can see what's happening where this is Spain, and you..."
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"As you can see, by this time, he's completely lost his sense of being. Okay? So, you can use this picture as a metaphor..."
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"It's really amazing. Okay? That's number one. Number two is, they love to sing. Okay? They don't talk, but they sing. The third thing..."
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"...on psychedelics. What's interesting is, there's no time and space in art, in this art. So, it becomes almost incomprehensible to us. Okay?"
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"that's why if you have been with me for a long, long time, 10 years, you will know I've never taught the same class..."
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"...the pursuit, the denial of knowledge, which includes, by the way, art, right? Movies, because movies are just a shadow of the shadow world...."
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"...one people. And we can do that through the appreciation of art, because art is a great unifier. Art is the thing that allows..."
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"...important passage. Music is thus by no means like the other arts, the copy of the ideas but the copy of the will itself...."
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"They do that through depictions of the, of life in the household, okay? And what will happen is this. At first, the Dutch Republic,..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's attack on the scientific worldview: Big Bang, evolution, neuroscience, school, and transhumanism become parts of one material story that forgets divinity, fears death, and lets power reinvent reality.
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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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The Dutch Golden Age begins with a poisoned Spanish windfall and ends with Vermeer exposing cracks in the respectable household.
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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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