Truth, virtue, and the force that draws the person toward wisdom and the divine.
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Asha
Jiang reframes the Iran-Israel-U.S.-Russia conflict as a long-horizon contest in worldview and political systems, where structural elites, narrative control, and religious grammar shape strategy more than leaders changing seats.
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Jiang reframes the Iran-Israel-U.S.-Russia conflict as a long-horizon contest in worldview and political systems, where structural elites, narrative control, and religious grammar shape strategy more than leaders changing seats.
Key Notes
Zoroastrianism reorders polytheism by placing Ahura Mazda as lord of wisdom and locating heaven and hell as forces inside the human person: Asha as truth and Drush as lie.
Asha is not merely telling factual truth; it is a system of virtue that makes the person a representative of Ahura Mazda on earth.
Jiang maps Asha onto three Kantian principles: universality, free will, and treating each human as an end rather than a means.
Plato's cave becomes Jiang's metaphor for Asha: liberation is incomplete until the freed person returns to help others escape.
Asha is not only self-truth; the one who sees truth has a responsibility to help others see it too.
Even in a world of evil, Jiang says the individual must choose good and tell the truth because Ahura Mazda will know and judge the choice.
Following Asha means doing God's work: a choice made in the heart changes the world for the better.
Jiang answers the problem of evil by saying virtue must come from vice; humans are born in Drush so they may discover Asha.
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"And he is a port prophet, just like Homer and the Yahwehs, and he's dealing with a situation. Okay? We've entered a system where..."
"...at us, that divide us. The first is the force of Asha, and the second is the force of Drush. Okay? These ideas are..."
"...simplistic understanding of the system. Telling the truth is not what Asha is, right? What Asha really is, is a system of virtue. By..."
"...show you is that it's very similar to the concept of Asha. So there are three principles of the Catechol Imperative. The first, the..."
"Or, do unto others as others would do unto you. But actually, no, it's a much higher concept. The higher concept is that, imagine..."
"...Okay? So these three things together gives us a concept of Asha. You can see immediately how complicated it is, but at the same..."
"Okay? Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Okay? And this together is two to three point billion people on earth. And that's why I say Zoroastria..."
"...light. Right? We see the sun. The sun, of course, is Asha. Truth. Okay? Or Ahura Masta. And we're blinded because our eyes are..."
"...beautiful. Okay? I found heaven. I found the truth. I found Asha. I found Ahura Masta. This is what life is really about. Okay?..."
"...we need to get into tune, right? Okay? So that's what Asha is. Asha is not just self -individualization, self -truth. It is helping..."
"...And this gives you a better understanding of the idea of Asha. Okay? So if you move towards the truth, you're moving towards Asha...."
"So we're living in a world run by Davahs, by demons who choose violence to control us. Okay? And what do you do? And..."
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