Energy and true wealth; the capturable force by which imagination can be focused into a reality.
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Energy and true wealth; the capturable force by which imagination can be focused into a reality.
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Jiang defines wealth as consciousness and attention: a vase becomes valuable when focused consciousness is stored in it, and money or capital extracts and stores that consciousness as wealth.
The people behind the cave wall are trying to enslave prisoners not mainly by force but by capturing attention and imagination.
Attention is energy and true wealth; whoever focuses attention can use imagination to construct reality as they want it.
Capital is best understood as a mechanism for extracting human attention and focus, not merely as money or stored wealth.
Jiang argues that later Freud explains hysteria as women wanting attention, a move that shifts blame away from abusers and toward female patients.
Cain and Abel are read as siblings competing for God's respect and attention through offerings.
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"So another way of saying this is that reality is a... collective conscious, which is really a hallucination, okay? So there's certain things about..."
"...the marketplace okay so in other words it is our conscious attention that creates wealth in this in this world and it's really money..."
"...If the universe is conscious, okay, our energy comes from our attention. Attention is energy. So what they want is our energy. Okay? That's..."
"...where consciousness is the universe, then what energy is ultimately is attention and focus. So it's not enough for you to work at something,..."
"...society. And the answer is very simple. Women are desperate for attention. It's that simple. They're fine, they have no issues, they just want..."
"...But they both love God. They both want the respect and attention of God. So they present they they give presents to God. Um..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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